Daniel Morris

Essays and Interviews on Contemporary American Poets, Poetry, and Pedagogy

A Thirty-Year Creative Reading Workshop

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Produktbeschreibung

Merging autobiography and literary criticism, Daniel Morris illustrates in sixteen essays how he learned to attend to avant-garde contemporary American poets whose aesthetic contributions were not part of his education.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. September 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 561g
• ISBN-13: 9781839992230
• ISBN-10: 1839992239
• Artikelnr.: 69974474

Autorenporträt

Daniel Morris is the author of seven books on twentieth- and twenty-first century poetry and visual culture, editor or co-editor of five essay collections, and author of four books of poetry. Recent titles include Not Born Digital (Bloomsbury), Blue Poles (Marsh Hawk Press), a paperback reissue of his study of Nobel Laureate Louise Glück (University of Missouri Press), and, as editor, The Cambridge Companion to American Poetry and Politics since 1900. He is a professor of English at Purdue University, where he has taught since 1994. Harry Targ taught United States foreign policy, US/Latin American relations, international political economy, and topics on labor studies in the Department of Political Science and a program in Peace Studies, both at Purdue University. He retired in 2019. He sees connections between theory/education and political practice. Consequently, he has been a political activist, co-chair of the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism (CCDS), and a member of the Purdue chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP). Formerly he was a member of the Northwest Central Labor Council (AFL-CIO) and the Lafayette Area Peace Coalition (LAPC). He has published ten books, including Diary of a Heartland Radical, available at Changemaker. He blogs at www.heartlandradical.blogspot.com.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments; Introduction: To Teach Is to Learn Twice (or, Putting the
Pieces of My Life's Work Together); SECTION 1: Rereading the Poets, Poetry,
and Poetics of My Decade in the Boston Area (1983-1993); CHAPTER 1 Reading
Spivack/Reading Myself: A Memoir of Reading a Memoir, Boston 1959-1977;
Boston 1983-1993; CHAPTER 2 Allen Grossman's Radical Simplicity; CHAPTER 3
In Praise of Secular Jewish American Lyric Commentary: Why Bob Dylan and
Louise Glück Are Twenty-First-Century Nobel Laureates; CHAPTER 4 Preserving
William Carlos Williams: Populism, Curation, and Late AvantGardism in
Kenneth Goldsmith's Duchamp Is My Lawyer and Thomas Lux's "Refrigerator,
1957"; SECTION 2: Midwestern Avant-Gardism: Essays and Interviews on
Experimental Poetics; CHAPTER 5 No Sympathy for the Devil of History: On
Norman Finkelstein's "Oppen at Altamont"; CHAPTER 6 History and/as Language
Poetry: Remembering Literary Community through Negation in Barrett Watten's
Questions of Poetics; CHAPTER 7 Tyrone Calling: Torqued Language Poetry and
Radical Mimesis in c.c.; CHAPTER 8 An Interview with Patrick Durgin about
Hannah Weiner; CHAPTER 9 Tech Support Says "Dead Don Walking": Tradition,
the Internet, and Individual Talent in the Poetry of Daniel Y. Harris;
CHAPTER 10 Interview with Adeena Karasick on Checking In; SECTION 3: To
Teach is to Learn Twice: Poetry, Poetics, and Pedagogy; CHAPTER 11
Convergence Cultures: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and the Graphic Novel;
CHAPTER 12 Resisting Billy Collins: On Teaching "Introduction to Poetry" in
Introduction to Poetry; CHAPTER 13 Amiri Baraka's Aesthetic Radicalism:
Dutchman's Modernist Roots; CHAPTER 14 Two Interviews with Thomas Fink;
SECTION 4: In My End Is My Beginning: Reviewing Peter Dale Scott and Philip
Guston; CHAPTER 15 Reviewing Peter Dale Scott/Reviewing Myself; CHAPTER 16
In My End Is My Beginning: Seeing Double at Philip Guston Now in the Summer
of 2023; Conclusion: Goodbye, Heavilon Hall; Index