A Forest on Many Stems

Essays on the Poet's Novel
Herausgeber: Browne, Laynie

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Produktbeschreibung

FINALIST for the Big Other Book Award for Nonfiction!  A collection of original essays written by contemporary poets about the innovative and unforgettable novels written by their predecessors.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nightboat Books
• Seitenzahl: 560
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 152mm x 40mm
• Gewicht: 907g
• ISBN-13: 9781643620251
• ISBN-10: 1643620258
• Artikelnr.: 57171304

Autorenporträt

Laynie Browne is a poet, prose writer, teacher and editor. She is author of thirteen collections of poems and three novels. Her most recent collections include a book of poems You Envelop Me (Omnidawn 2017), a novel Periodic Companions (Tinderbox 2018) and short fiction in two editions, one French, and one English in The Book of Moments (Presses universitaires de rouen et du havre, 2018). Her honors include a 2014 Pew Fellowship, the National Poetry Series Award (2007) for her collection The Scented Fox, and the Contemporary Poetry Series Award (2005) for her collection Drawing of a Swan Before Memory. Her poetry has been translated into French, Spanish, Chinese and Catalan. She teaches at the University of Pennsylvania and at Swarthmore College.

Inhaltsangabe

CONTENTS: Introduction
The Poet
s Novel: A Form of Refusal I . Verse Novel
Poetry tells me I
m dead; prose pretends I
m not
Alice Notley (39, Culture of One)
You Cannot Count That You Should Weep For This Account:
Aurora Leigh and the Problem of Math by Anne Boyer Cane in the Classroom: Jean Toomer
s Classic by Julie Patton The Monster in the Rotunda: Anne Carson
s Autobiography of Red By Sasha Steensen Muse X : Lyn Hejinian
s Oxota: A Short Russian Novel By Julie Carr Down in the Dump: The Abject in Alice Notley
s Culture of One By Laura Hinton II. Genre Mash-Ups Composite, Cut-Ups, Review, Sci Fi, Writer as Detective
The images set off down the road and yet they never get anywhere, they
re simply lost, it
s hopeless, says the voice
and the hunchback asks himself, hopeless for who?.
(Bolaño, Antwerp, 18) The Cornucopia is Mapped with a Slipping Venn-Diagram and a Möbius Strip: William Carlos Williams and his The Great American Novel by Sarah Vap Friendship as Method in Ashbery & Schuyler
s A Nest of Ninnies By Geoffrey G. O
Brien A Greater Greatness: Max Brand
s Twenty Notches becomes Ted Berrigan
s Clear the Range By Edmund Berrigan Lying in Wait: On Roberto Bolañös Antwerp as a Poet
s Novel By Joshua Marie Wilkinson Obituary of the Many: Gail Scott by Carla Harryman Kevin Killian
s Epic Poem of Happiness By Brandon Brown Dark Light: Paradox & Subversion in Laura Moriarty
s Ultraviloeta By Brent Cunningham A Ghostlike Interference: Jack Spicer
s Detective Novel By Daniel Katz III. Interior Lyric / Displacement/ Cartographic Time 146
She wanted to climb through walls of no visible dimension
H.D. (Hermione, 7) Hilda Hilst
s The Obscene Madame D: A Derelict Reader
s Guide by Traci Brimhall Narrating the Financialized Landscape: The Novels of Taylor Brady By Rob Halpern Structure as Philosophy in Inger Christensen
s Azorno By Denise Newman The Point of Robert Creeley
s The Island By Marcella Durand Attention and Attunement in Forrest Gander
s As A Friend By Susan Scarlatta Out of Marsh and Bog:
H.D., Imagiste
and the Poeisis of HERmione Precisely by Jenn Scappetone Message in a Bottle: A Brief Introduction to Radical Love: 5 Novels by Fanny Howe By Kazim Ali The School of Fears: Rilke
s Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge By Brian Teare IV. Prose Poem / Concatenation / Novel Borders
An ambulatory fig tree strolled down a street crowded with seminarians, streetwalkers, and geometry professors
a thousand aging gentlemen, dirty collars, sticky fingers.
(Adán, 26) Impressions of Martin Adán
s The Cardboard House By Mónica de la Torre
What Am I to Do with All of This Life
: Gwendolyn Brooks
s Maud Martha by Julia Bloch
A Book
and Other Fractured Pages: Nicole Brossard
s Early Novels by Angela Carr To Seek Air: Barbara Guest
s Inter-layered Fiction By Karla Kelsey Carnal Knowledge: Carla Harryman
s Gardener of Stars: A Novel by Lee Ann Brown Rereading Emmanuel Hocquard
s AEREA dans les forêts de Manhattan By Norma Cole
The Greek Fragment
: Irreal Salvation in Mina Loy
s Gnostic Text Insel By Kimberly Lyons Gertrude Stein and the Poet
s Novel, Thank You. By Rachel Blau DuPlessis Fidelity and Form: Rosmarie Waldrop and the Poet
s Novel By Elizabeth Robinson V. Portrait / Documentary / Representation / Palimpsest 303
I
ve read many stories of revenants and apparitions, but my ghosts merely disappear. I never see them.
(Keith Waldrop, 11) Etel Adnan
s Paris, When It
s Naked by Brandon Shimoda
Mme Wiener,
the French Novelist and her Masks
Reading Stacy Doris
s Two French Novels by Vincent Broqua Thalia Field
s Ululu (Clown Shrapnel): A series of detonations by Jena Osman Turning Poetry into Prose: Not Without Laughter and Langston Hughes by W. Jason Miller NourbeSe Philip by Sonnet L
Abbe Coming through Slaughter, Michael Ondaatje
s Buddy Book by C.D. Wright
Light
in Light While There Is Light: An American History by Laura Moriarty
I
M ALL IN THE DIRD AND ON FIRE OR SOMETHING, GET ME OUT OF HERE.
The novels of Phillip Whalen, You Didn
t Even Try and Imaginary Speeches for a Brazen Head by Norman Fischer VI. Metamorphic / Distance / Aural Address / Wandering
Everything in the poem was in transition
Peter Waterhouse Fernando Pessoäs Book of Disquiet by John Keene Malina, Murder Death in Ingeborg Bachmann
s Writing by Mette Moestrup (translated from Danish by Mark Kline) Two Sources of Poetry in Carroll
s Writing by Aaron Kunin A Space for Bhanu Kapil by Laura Mullen Circumambulation: Cowrie Shells, Bottle Caps and Balloons in Nathaniel Mackey
s From a Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate by Tyronne Williams
the equal instant space of action
On Leslie Scalapinös Dihedrons Gazelle-Dihedrals Zoom (2010) by Judith Goldman The Tattered Labyrinth: On W. G. Sebald
s The Rings of Saturn by Dan Beachy-Quick
The Terrible I
: On Peter Waterhouse `s Poem Novel Language Death Night Outside By Donna Stonecipher VII. Identification / Dissolution / Polemic / Bildungsroman 459
She says to herself if she were able to write she could continue to live.
Cha (141)
I Got This Under the Bridge
/ Notes on Audre Lorde
s Zami by C.S. Giscombe On Amiri Barakäs Six Plus One Persons
a longish poem about a dude
by Aldon Lynn Nielsen Thersa Chäs Eroticism By Jeanne Hueving A Fragmented Whole for Renee Gladman
s Toaf By Danielle Vogel Three Ways to Sunday: The Mandarin by Aaron Kunin by Brian Blanchfield Romantic Substance: Reading Ben Lerner
s Leaving the Atocha Station with the Künstlerroman by Lynn Xu Stupendous Lore: Poet
s Novels by Tan Lin & Pamela Lu by Patrick Durgin The Doors of Perception in Eileen Myles
Inferno Cedar Sigo Jacques Roubaud
s poet
s prose By Abigail Lang Juliana Spahr
s The Transformation thinks wit(h)ness) by Rachel Zolf