Poetic Will

Poetic Will

Author: David Willbern

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2016-11-11

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 1512809373

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The essence of Shakespeare, observes David Willbern, is in the details. What matters most in our appreciation of Hamlet is not the staged play but the play of language we find in the words of the Bard. This book explores the expressions of Shakespeare's poetic will—his sexual desire, conscious and unconscious volition, and posthumous legacy—within the linguistic matrix that enfolds his characters and readers. Using a combination of psychoanalytic approaches, Willbern rescues Shakespeare from the limitations and distortions of dramatic performance by showing that his language, scenes, and characters are propelled by the genius of this will and need to be understood primarily as written narrative. In these provocative essays, Willbern examines the deep analogy between poetic creativity and sexual procreation as he explores the parallels between Shakespearean and Freudian representations of fantasy, thus offering readers a heightened awareness of the sexual and bodily substrate of Shakespeare's language. Engaging current debars between psychological and social approaches, he develops new strategies of reading in a search for the limits of Shakespeare's language and our responses to it. He then applies these strategies to all of Shakespeare's genres via detailed analysis of a comedy (Twelfth Night) a history (Henry IV, Part One) a tragedy (MacBeth) and a poem (Lucrece). Additional essays provide an overview of Shakespeare both as a creative agent and as a body of work. Questions of identity, authenticity, and representation­-especially as posed in Hamlet—are a recurrent concern throughout the book. Poetic Will frees the play of language in Shakespeare from its illusory anchors in characters and resituates the experience of reading his work within individual response and reconstruction. Offering practical criticism with a bold, American slant, it emphasizes the rich potential of Shakespeare's poetic language while exploring the interpretive and rhetorical limits of psychoanalytic literary criticism.


The Poem That Will Not End

The Poem That Will Not End

Author: Joan Bransfield Graham

Publisher: Two Lions

Published: 2014-01-28

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781477847152

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Ryan O'Brian is riding a wave of inspiration with no shoreline in sight--he can't STOP writing poetry. In the cafeteria with french fries. In the bathroom with toothpaste. Even on the soccer field with mud! Has he reached an artistic crescendo with a sonnet on the staircase and a villanelle on the shower curtain? What next? In this innovative, inspiring picture book, you'll find a laugh-out-loud story poem full of hilarious antics, and, if you look carefully, you'll discover Ryan's own poems within the inventive illustrations. As a bonus, Ryan's helpful guide to fifteen poetic forms and five voices invites you to challenge your own poetic imagination. Ideal for reading aloud or acting out, here's the perfect book to celebrate the joy of poetry and spark creative thinking. Join in the fun!


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"--


This Tilted World Is Where I Live

This Tilted World Is Where I Live

Author: Henry Taylor

Publisher: LSU Press

Published: 2020-08-12

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 0807174157

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This Tilted World Is Where I Live presents one hundred poems by Henry Taylor, drawing on over fifty years of published work by this witty, adept, and vital literary voice. The volume gathers seventy-five poems from previous books, including the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Flying Change, along with twenty-five more recent poems collected for the first time. Throughout his remarkable career, Taylor has worked in both traditional and open forms, avoiding rigid allegiance to either mode as he has responded to the world around him, from the horse farm in Virginia where he grew up, to the deserts around Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he now lives. In tones and moods ranging from grief to explosive hilarity, Taylor’s verse considers what we mean by loving one another, how violence can intrude without warning into innocent lives, and how the things we have always seen can change with the passage of time. This Tilted World Is Where I Live encapsulates the keen attention, vital humanism, and mastery of craft that have characterized a long and distinguished poetic career.


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Home

Author: Whitney Hanson

Publisher:

Published: 2021-11-12

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 9780578327105

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I Am Flying Into Myself

I Am Flying Into Myself

Author: Bill Knott

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2017-02-14

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 0374260672

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A selection of Bill Knott's life work--testimony of his enduring -thorny genius- (Robert Pinsky).


Poetic Form

Poetic Form

Author: Michael D. Hurley

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2012-10-08

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 052177294X

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The perfect gift for your favorite poet or lover of poetry From Old English to the poetry of the present, discover how a poem's form shapes and informs the reader's and writer's experience.


Lemons

Lemons

Author: Melissa D. Savage

Publisher: Crown Books For Young Readers

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 1524700126

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After her mother dies in 1975, ten-year-old Lemonade must live with her grandfather in a small town famous for Bigfoot sitings and soon becomes friends with Tobin, a quirky Bigfoot investigator.