A Field Guide to the Poetry of Theodore Roethke

Herausgeber: Barillas, William

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Produktbeschreibung

This timely and accessible companion to the work of twentieth-century American poet Theodore Roethke (1908-1963) gathers essays that illuminate his poetics, themes, and the contexts of his poems through the diverse critical approaches that have emerged in the past five decades.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Univ of Chicago on Behalf of Ohio Univ Press
• Seitenzahl: 364
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780804012317
• ISBN-10: 0804012318
• Artikelnr.: 59508693

Autorenporträt

William Barillas is the author of The Midwestern Pastoral: Place and Landscape in Literature of the American Heartland, also from Ohio University Press, as well as many essays in scholarly and literary journals. His areas of focus include American literature, particularly literature of the Midwest, with special concern for poetry, environmental literature, and Latinx literature.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword (EDWARD HIRSCH)
Preface
Acknowledgments
House, Field, Stones, and Stars: An Introduction (WILLIAM BARILLAS)
Open House (1941)
1. “Open House”: Prying and Potential in an Early Poem (BRANDON RUSHTON)
2. “To My Sister” (WILLIAM HEYEN)
3. “Beneath an Undivided Sky”: Environmental Disorder and Human Passivity
in “Interlude” (KRISTIN M. DISTEL)
4. “Sharper on the Ear”: “The Light Comes Brighter” and the Subtle
Phenomena of Place (ROD PHILLIPS)
5. Smart Like Auden? “Lull” and “September 1, 1939” (PATRICK GILL)
6. Ironic Quest in “Highway: Michigan” (RONALD PRIMEAU)
7. Movement through Space, Sound, and Time in “Night Journey” (MARCEL
INHOFF)
The Lost Son and Other Poems (1948)
8. “Cuttings” and “Cuttings (later)”: Roethke’s Minute Carnivals (MICHAEL
HINDS)
9. All the Small, Unlovely Things: “Root Cellar” (JOHN ROHRKEMPER)
10. Locating the Poet in “Weed Puller” (LYN COFFIN)
11. “Orchids”: Undomesticating the Greenhouse (BROOKE HORVATH)
12. “Moss-Gathering” and Roethke’s Romantic Child of Nature (MARC MALANDRA)
13. The Storm of the Mind vs. Family and Machine in “Big Wind” (RUSSELL
BRICKEY)
14. “Long Days under the Sloped Glass”: Greenhouse Memories in
“Transplanting” (CARRIE DUKE)
15. “Frau Bauman, Frau Schmidt, and Frau Schwartze” and the Sleeping Beauty
Tale (MARCIA NOE and LAURA DUNCAN)
16. Meter in “My Papa’s Waltz” (WILLIAM BARILLAS)
17. Syntax and Diction in “Dolor” (LUKE BREKKE)
18. Imagery and Abstraction in “Night Crow” (SARAH KATHRYN MOORE)
19. “The Lost Son”: An Emotional Journey through the Landscapes of Loss
(BORJA AGUILÓ OBRADOR)
20. Respite for the Lost Son: “A Field of Light” (JEFFREY CLAPP)
Praise to the End! (1951)
21. Homegrown Cosmologies: Animism and Elegy in “Where Knock Is Open Wide”
(DAVID WOJAHN)
22. “Give Way, Ye Gates” and Roethke’s Praise to the End! Sequence (PETER
BALAKIAN)
The Waking (1953)
23 “The Visitant” (CAMILLE PAGLIA)
24. “Elegy for Jane”: The Nature of Grief (DAVID RADAVICH)
25. Dancing “The Dance”: Roethke’s Poetics of Appropriation (ADAM PUTZ)
26. Subduing Fear in “The Waking” (FRANK J. KEARFUL)
Words for the Wind (1958)
27. Love, Selfhood, and Sublimation in “Words for the Wind” (ANDREW DAVID
KING)
28. Moving Circles in “I Knew a Woman” (JAY PARINI)
29. “First Meditation” and Roethke’s Career (DON BOGEN)
I Am! Says th e Lamb (1961)
30. A Few Thousand Words on Theodore Roethke, Children’s Poetry, and Three
Poems Concerning Two Turtles (One of Whom Is Named Myrtle) (JOSEPH T.
THOMAS JR.)
The Far Field (1964)
31. “The Longing”: Alienation, Place, and the Desire for Home (KATHARINE
BUBEL)
32. Spirit, Self, and Shorebirds: The Pacific Pastoral of “Meditation at
Oyster River” (NICHOLAS BRADLEY)
33. “Journey to the Interior,” “The Longing,” and the Search for a
Definitive Text (NEAL BOWERS)
Contents
34. Mnetha in “The Long Waters” (JOHN J. MCKENNA)
35. The Ecological Vision of “The Far Field” (BERNARD QUETCHENBACH)
36. Nature Mysticism in “The Rose” (EDWARD MORIN)
37. “The Abyss”: Finding the Next Life in This One (TRENTON HICKMAN)
38. “Otto”: An Insight into Roethke’s Poetic Vision (JEFF VANDE ZANDE)
39. “The Meadow Mouse”: A Poem of Compassion (NORMAN CHANEY)
40. The Zoopoetics of “The Pike” (AARON M. MOE)
41. Roethke’s Dark Society: Revisiting “In a Dark Time” (WALTER KALAIDJIAN)
42. “I Am Not Yet Undone”: Navigating the Journey from Life to Death in
“Infirmity” (LAURA GILL)
43. Symbolism and the Mystic’s Way in “The Tree, the Bird” (CHRISTOPHER
GIROUX)
44. “Once More, the Round”: Roethke’s Last Word (WILLIAM BARILLAS)
Works Cited
Notes on Contributors
Index