Reading Duncan Reading: Robert Duncan and the Poetics of Derivation (Contemp North American Poetry)

ISBN 10: 1609381165 / ISBN 13: 9781609381165

Verlag: University Of Iowa Press, 2012

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Reading Duncan Reading: Robert Duncan and the Poetics of Derivation (Contemp North American Poetry)
• Verlag: University Of Iowa Press
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1609381165
• ISBN-13: 9781609381165
• Einband: Paperback
• Zustand: Very Good

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Inhaltsangabe

In Reading Duncan Reading, thirteen scholars and poets examine, first, what and how the American poet Robert Duncan read and, perforce, what and how he wrote. Harold Bloom wrote of the searing anxiety of influence writers experience as they grapple with the burden of being original, but for Duncan this was another matter altogether. Indeed, according to Stephen Collis, “No other poet has so openly expressed his admiration for and gratitude toward his predecessors.”

 

Part one emphasizes Duncan’s acts of reading, tracing a variety of his derivations—including Sarah Ehlers’s demonstration of how Milton shaped Duncan’s early poetic aspirations, Siobhán Scarry’s unveiling of the many sources (including translation and correspondence) drawn into a single Duncan poem, and Clément Oudart’s exploration of Duncan’s use of “foreign words” to fashion “a language to which no one is native.”

 

 In part two, the volume turns to examinations of poets who can be seen to in some way derive from Duncan—and so in turn reveals another angle of Duncan’s derivative poetics. J. P. Craig traces Nathaniel MacKey’s use of Duncan’s “would-be shaman,” Catherine Martin sees Duncan’s influence in Susan Howe’s “development of a poetics where the twin concepts of trespass and ‘permission’ hold comparable sway,” and Ross Hair explores poet Ronald Johnson’s “reading to steal.” These and other essays collected here trace paths of poetic affiliation and affinity and hold them up as provocative possibilities in Duncan’s own inexhaustible work.  

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Stephen Collis is an associate professor in the Department of English at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia. He is the author of Phyllis Webb and the Common Good and Through Words of Others. His most recent book of poetry, On the Material, won the BC Book Prize for poetry. Graham Lyons is a doctoral candidate at Simon Fraser University. His research traverses the twentieth century, with a particular focus on cultural theory, historiography, autobiography, and the Frankfurt school of Marxism. He has published on Walter Benjamin, Louis Zukofsky, and the Star Wars films.