Ravinthiran Worlds Woven Together

Essays on Poetry and Poetics
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-0-231-55469-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 296 Seiten

Reihe: Literature Now

Writing about poetry follows models provided either by academic scholarship or literary journalism, each with its pitfalls. The former distances the reader from the poem and effaces the critic’s personality. In literary journalism, the critic is front and center, but the discussion is introductory and prioritizes value judgments. In either case, entrenched practices and patterns of privilege limit one’s perspective. The situation worsens when it comes to minoritized poets and poets from the Global South, where the focus is on restrictive notions of identity: the stylistic innovations of literary works get ousted by prefabricated historical narratives.

In Worlds Woven Together, the critic, poet, and scholar Vidyan Ravinthiran searches for alternatives, pursuing close, imaginative readings of a variety of writers. His essays are open-ended, attentive, and curious, unabashedly passionate and subjective yet keenly analytical and investigative. Discussing neglected authors and those well-known in the West, Ravinthiran sees politics as inseparable from literary form and is fascinated by the relation of the creative consciousness to the violences of history. The book features essays on writers including Mir Taqi Mir, Ana Blandiana, A. K. Ramanujan, Marianne Moore, Eunice de Souza, Czeslaw Milosz, Ted Hughes, Rae Armantrout, Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, Galway Kinnell, Dawn Lundy Martin, and Vahni Capildeo. Revealing serendipitous connections—between poems and cultures, between lines of verse and the lives we lead—Worlds Woven Together is for all readers fascinated by the mechanics and politics of poetry.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ravinthiran, Vidyan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Indische & Dravidische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction
“A slave and worshiper at love’s doorstep”: Mir Taqi Mir
Censorship and the Role of the Poet in the Work of Ana Blandiana
At Home or Nowhere: A. K. Ramanujan
Your Thorns Are the Best Part of You: Marianne Moore and Stevie Smith
Eunice de Souza and Indian Speech
“Emmental freedom”: Czeslaw Milosz
“There must be something to say”: On Verse Sound
Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Penn Warren, and Cleanth Brooks, Communication, and Other People
Ted Hughes, Keith Sagar, and the Poetics of Letter Prose
Rae Armantrout’s Lonely Dream
Dreaming the World: Vinod Kumar Shukla’s Extraordinary Sentences
Srinivas Rayaprol and Gamini Salgado
You Can’t Close Your Eyes for a Sec: Arvind Krishna Mehrotra
Thom Gunn’s Shadows Hard as Board
Galway Kinnell, Trying to Become Winged
A. R. Ammons and “the political (read, human) world”
Postlyric and the Already Known: Dawn Lundy Martin
“I am not speaking of or as myself or for any/one”: Vahni (Anthony) Capildeo
Bibliography
Permissions
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Vidyan Ravinthiran is associate professor of English at Harvard University. He is the author of Elizabeth Bishop’s Prosaic (2015) as well as two books of poetry, Grun-tu-molani (2014) and The Million-Petalled Flower of Being Here (2019).