Contemporary Poetry

16 contemporary poetry the USA, UK, New Zealand, Ireland, Canada and Australia. When one considers that ‘stanza’ can also mean r ...

introduction 17 ity of daily life in her collection Daily Sonnets ( 2007 ).^32 In Browne’s words, her 150 poems approach ‘all me ...

18 contemporary poetry regional languages of the global South. Even so, one way to complicate an imperial ‘Anglophony’ from with ...

introduction 19 reminds us that identifying oneself as part of a ‘global feeling’ is not necessarily at the expense of national ...

20 contemporary poetry historical excavation by Rita Dove of accounts of mass murder in the Dominican Republic. Much critical at ...

introduction 21 ism form key considerations in Gwyneth Lewis, Li-Young Lee and Lorna Dee Cervantes’s poetry. In closing, Tusiata ...

22 contemporary poetry Viktor Schklovsky, ‘Art as Technique’, Russian Formalist Criticism: Four Essays, trans. Lee T. Lemon and ...

introduction 23 Alvarez, The New Poetry, p. 25. John Berryman, ‘Dream Song 14 ’, in Selected Poems 1938 – 1968 (London: Faber & ...

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chapter 1 Lyric Subjects I n the essay ‘Tradition and the Individual Talent’ T. S. Eliot famously declares that ‘Poetry is not a ...

26 contemporary poetry Al Alvarez in his retrospective account of post-war poetries The Writer’s Voice ( 2006 ) identifi es a ke ...

lyric subjects 27 address. It is important to consider what happens to the poem when subjectivity is no longer represented as a ...

28 contemporary poetry Critic Charles Altieri identifi es the dominant model of the 1970 s as the ‘scenic mode’,^ and suggests t ...

lyric subjects 29 marker of loss, and also an attempt to recompose the past. The fi ve sections that comprise the sequence mark ...

30 contemporary poetry with the natural world since in the third anniversary his mother is described as having a ‘shadow of clou ...

lyric subjects 31 him ‘(the tense continually shifts, past and present blur)’ (p. 433 ). Moreover, Harwood’s elegy is fi lled wi ...

32 contemporary poetry Foucault’s ‘What is an Author?’ ( 1968 ) challenged any determi- nate meaning to any text. Barthes’s late ...

lyric subjects 33 autobiography through considerations of race, cultural inheritance, ethnicity and gender. In the USA in partic ...

34 contemporary poetry with her ‘blind fi ngertips’ next to ‘an entire wall without windows’ (p. 79 ). Throughout the poem Song ...

lyric subjects 35 Flower’. Song’s deliberate evocation of American art as a framing device for the book serves to make a sustain ...