This book attempts to develop a generative criticism of poetic practice. The order of presentation follows a certain model for how the poem comes into being. Poetic practice as it is actualized in the work of the creative imagination stems from: memory as the place where the poem arises among the conflicts of the imagination; absence or the loss which weighs on the utterance and gives it urgency; desire as the force structuring the poem according to the subject's need; knowing or how the subject's experience of the world ...
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This book attempts to develop a generative criticism of poetic practice. The order of presentation follows a certain model for how the poem comes into being. Poetic practice as it is actualized in the work of the creative imagination stems from: memory as the place where the poem arises among the conflicts of the imagination; absence or the loss which weighs on the utterance and gives it urgency; desire as the force structuring the poem according to the subject's need; knowing or how the subject's experience of the world and other people finds expression; and style or how the poem exemplifies a compassionate understanding. Poets whose work is examined include Hardy, Mallarm???, Williams, Ungaretti, Apollinaire, Saint-John Perse, John Ashbery, and Frank O'Hara.
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A pencilled marginal mark to one page, minor rubbing, VG. 22x15cm, ix, 212 pp, American University Studies, Series III: Comparative Literature, Vol. 22. Contents: Memory as a Model for Poetic Creation: Thomas Hardy & William Carlos Williams; Poetic Practice: The Structure of Absence: Stephane Mallarme and Giuseppe Ungaretti; Desire & the Forms of Poetic Expression: Guillaume Apollinaire and William Carlos Williams; The Act of Self-Knowing: Structuring Long Poems: Saint-John Perse and John Ashberry; Style & Compassion in the Williams Tradition: William Carlos Williams and Frank O' Hara.
