A Test of Poetry
A Test of Poetry

Author: Louis Zukofsky

Publisher: Wesleyan

Published: 2000-05-26

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 9780819564023

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By juxtaposing several translations of the same passage from Homer; an elegy from Ovid and lines from Herrick that read like an adaptation of Ovid; or a 15th-century poem about a rooster and a contemporary poem about white chickens, Louis Zukofsky has established a means for judging the values of poetic writing. A wonderful education for the fledgling poet, this handbook, first published in 1948, is the best elucidation of Zukofsky's "objectivist" premises for recognizing value in specific instances of poetry.

A Test of Poetry
A Test of Poetry

Author: Louis Zukofsky

Publisher:

Published: 1964

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13:

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Presents for comparison various poems and translations as a means of judging the values of poetic writing.

Pluralism, Poetry, and Literacy
Pluralism, Poetry, and Literacy

Author: Xavier Kalck

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-03-17

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 0429575335

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Drawing from Medieval and Renaissance studies, analytic philosophy and pragmatism, Jewish studies, as well as ecocriticism and environmental humanities, this book demonstrates the consistent relationship between pluralism and literacy through the prism of poetry by confronting the history of interpretive practices with examples from American poets Robert Lax, Larry Eigner, Louis Zukofsky, Gary Snyder and Theodore Enslin. Divided into four areas of investigation—the meditative, the analytic, the diasporic and the ecological reader—it is an invitation to turn to premodern reading practices related to spiritual exercises as well as modern reading practices devoted to the critical pursuit of analytical knowledge. This study further reflects on the textual models of Jewish diaspora as another form of dialog between sacred and secular interpretive practices, before examining a final variation on this distinction by looking at the separation between contemplative and investigative perspectives on reading and writing nature.

The Hatred of Poetry
The Hatred of Poetry

Author: Ben Lerner

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2016-06-07

Total Pages: 97

ISBN-13: 0865478201

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"The novelist and poet Ben Lerner argues that our hatred of poetry is ultimately a sign of its nagging relevance"--

The Testing-Tree
The Testing-Tree

Author: Stanley Kunitz

Publisher:

Published: 1975

Total Pages: 68

ISBN-13:

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Stanley Kunitz has received ... the Pulitzer Prize for Selcted Poems 1928-1958, the Brandeis Medal of Achievement, the Harriet Monroe Award, and Poetry's Levinson Prize. ... --Little, Brown and Company"He has a bold dramatic imagination that can wrest meanings from bleak and difficult material. He can break into truly passionate speech."--Theodore Roethke.

The Wug Test
The Wug Test

Author: Jennifer Kronovet

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2016-10-11

Total Pages: 75

ISBN-13: 0062564595

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A collection of language-driven, imaginative poetry from the winner of the 2015 National Poetry Series Open Competition. Jennifer Kronovet’s poetry is inflected by her fraught, ecstatic relationship with language—sentences, words, phonemes, punctuation—and how meaning is both gained and lost in the process of communicating. Having lived all over the world, both using her native tongue and finding it impossible to use, Kronovet approaches poems as tactile, foreign objects, as well as intimate, close utterances. In The Wug Test, named for a method by which a linguist discovered how deeply imprinted the cognitive instinct toward acquiring language is in children, Kronovet questions whether words are objects we should escape from or embrace. Dispatches of text from that researcher, Walt Whitman, Ferdinand de Saussure, and the poet herself, among other voices, are mined for their futility as well as their beauty, in poems that are technically revealing and purely pleasurable. Throughout, a boy learns how to name and ask for those things that makes up his world.

Gary Soto
Gary Soto

Author: Gary Soto

Publisher: Chronicle Books

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9780811807586

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Soto writes with a pure sweetness free of sentimentality that is almost extraordinary in modern American poetry. -- Andrew Hudgins. Soto insists on the possibility of a redemptive power, and he celebrates the heroic, quixotic capacity for survival in human beings and the natural world. -- Publishers Weekly. Soto has it all -- the learned craft, the intrinsic abilities with language, a fascinating autobiography, and the storyteller's ability to manipulate memories into folklore. -- Library Journal.

Anatomic
Anatomic

Author: Adam Dickinson

Publisher: Coach House Books

Published: 2018-04-24

Total Pages: 154

ISBN-13: 1770565469

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The poems of Anatomic have emerged from biomonitoring and microbiome testing on the author's body to examine the way the outside writes the inside, whether we like it or not. Adam Dickinson drew blood, collected urine, swabbed bacteria, and tested his feces to measure the precise chemical and microbial diversity of his body. To his horror, he discovered that our "petroculture" has infiltrated our very bodies with pesticides, flame retardants, and other substances. He discovered shifting communities of microbes that reflect his dependence on the sugar, salt, and fat of the Western diet, and he discovered how we rely on nonhuman organisms to make us human, to regulate our moods and personalities. Structured like the hormones some of these synthetic chemicals mimic in our bodies, this sequence of poems links the author’s biographical details (diet, lifestyle, geography) with historical details (spills, poisonings, military applications) to show how permeable our bodies are to the environment. As Dickinson becomes obsessed with limiting the rampant contamination of his own biochemistry, he turns this chemical-microbial autobiography into an anxious plea for us to consider what we’re doing to our world -- and to our own bodies.