Contemporary Poetry

56 contemporary poetry Maurice Merleau-Ponty, The Phenomenology of Perception, trans. Colin Smith (London: Routledge, 1999 ). J ...

lyric subjects 57 23 – 5. All subsequent references to this edition are given in the text. 47. Rainer Maria Rilke, The Selected ...

chapter 2 Politics and Poetics I n May 2009 Carol Ann Duffy became the fi rst woman poet laureate in UK history. In recent decad ...

politics and poetics 59 cians’ promises.^2 Her poem entitled ‘Politics’ asserts the failure of ideals, since politics turn the f ...

60 contemporary poetry a mouth’ (p. 242 ). Auden proposes that poetry is an enduring art form, a dynamic method of articulation. ...

politics and poetics 61 its affront and immensity. To me that’s what the ‘end of art is peace’ means.^8 Heaney also calls upon t ...

62 contemporary poetry personal, we risk relinquishing one of the most powerful sites of resistance. The celebration of the pers ...

politics and poetics 63 Ferlinghetti responds: ‘What are poets for, in such an age? / What is the use of poetry? / The state of ...

64 contemporary poetry An estimated 38 million viewers watched Obama’s inauguration ceremony around the world, but the tensions ...

politics and poetics 65 inclusion. Angelou dramatises how America exists as an intersec- tion of individual narratives creating ...

66 contemporary poetry work songs; its focus is upon acts of mending broken communi- ties. Alexander’s opening poses a caustic c ...

politics and poetics 67 rail lines as well as its buildings. Inscribed in their making is a history of incredible sacrifi ce, ma ...

68 contemporary poetry and Paul Muldoon’s Quoof ( 1983 ), articulates an inherent scepti- cism towards the poet as polemicist, b ...

politics and poetics 69 tar’ (p. 28 ) and gently removed as ‘a forceps baby’ (p. 29 ). Moving us to the twentieth century, Heane ...

70 contemporary poetry infi ltrate everyday life drawing attention to ‘land of password, handgrip, wink and nod / of open minds ...

politics and poetics 71 representation are posed in the poem since voices beg for us ‘To do something, to speak on their behalf ...

72 contemporary poetry The similarity is really an accident. I think it’s worth remem- bering that in England there’s much more ...

politics and poetics 73 the text and divergence of poetic language from public discourse had a political agency. Bernstein sugge ...

74 contemporary poetry wrested from our control is a world taken from us – a world in which language becomes a tool for the desc ...

politics and poetics 75 Bernstein’s poetry includes a texture of nonsense rhyme, black humour, punning, and the rewriting of fou ...