"Verse and Worse: Selected and New Poems of Steve McCaffery 1989?2009" presents texts from the last two decades of work by Steve McCaffery, one of the most influential and innovative of contemporary poets. The volume focuses on selections from McCaffery's major texts, including "The Black Debt," "Theory of Sediment," "The Cheat of Words," and "Slightly Left of Thinking," but also features a substantial number of previously ungathered poems. As playful as they are cerebral, McCaffery's poems stage an incessant departure from conventional lyrical and narrative methods of making meaning. For…mehr
"Verse and Worse: Selected and New Poems of Steve McCaffery 1989?2009" presents texts from the last two decades of work by Steve McCaffery, one of the most influential and innovative of contemporary poets. The volume focuses on selections from McCaffery's major texts, including "The Black Debt," "Theory of Sediment," "The Cheat of Words," and "Slightly Left of Thinking," but also features a substantial number of previously ungathered poems. As playful as they are cerebral, McCaffery's poems stage an incessant departure from conventional lyrical and narrative methods of making meaning. For those encountering McCaffery's work for the first time as well as for those who have followed the twists and turns of his astonishingly heterogeneous poetic trajectory over the past four decades?this volume is essential reading.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Steve McCaffery is the author of over twenty-five books of poetry and criticism. He has twice been awarded the Gertrude Stein Award for innovative poetry and twice shortlisted for the Governor General's Award. His poems have been published in more than a dozen countries. A long-time resident of Toronto, he is currently the David Gray Professor of Poetry and Letters, University at Buffalo.
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Table of Contents for Verse and Worse: Selected and New Poems of Steve McCaffery 1989-2009, selected with an introduction by Darren Wershler Foreword Neil Besner Biographical Note Introduction Darren Wershler A Theory of the Lyric from Teachable Texts from Theory of Sediment: The Curve to Its Answer A Child's History of Rhetoric Caught as It Happens from The Entries A Few Donuts from an Hommagiste or: Bad Modernism from Some Versions of Pastoral Apologia Pro Vita Sua Coleridge in Calgary (ars poetica 4) Ephemera from Lag from An Effect of Cellophane Oedipus Meets the Abstract Machine Suggestion but No Insult The Dangers of Poetry (for Italo Calvino) The Lone Ranger in Arcadia Restricted Translation with Imperfect Level Shift (after Basho) The Poem as a Thing to See The View from Here Tyrolean Night A Map Correlata for a Cryptogram The Logic of Six First Vico Meditation Second Vico Meditation Digital Poetics Prior to Meaning Afterword Steve McCaffery Acknowledgements
Table of Contents for Verse and Worse: Selected and New Poems of Steve McCaffery 1989-2009, selected with an introduction by Darren Wershler Foreword Neil Besner Biographical Note Introduction Darren Wershler A Theory of the Lyric from Teachable Texts from Theory of Sediment: The Curve to Its Answer A Child's History of Rhetoric Caught as It Happens from The Entries A Few Donuts from an Hommagiste or: Bad Modernism from Some Versions of Pastoral Apologia Pro Vita Sua Coleridge in Calgary (ars poetica 4) Ephemera from Lag from An Effect of Cellophane Oedipus Meets the Abstract Machine Suggestion but No Insult The Dangers of Poetry (for Italo Calvino) The Lone Ranger in Arcadia Restricted Translation with Imperfect Level Shift (after Basho) The Poem as a Thing to See The View from Here Tyrolean Night A Map Correlata for a Cryptogram The Logic of Six First Vico Meditation Second Vico Meditation Digital Poetics Prior to Meaning Afterword Steve McCaffery Acknowledgements
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