The game changed: essays and other prose
This book presents works by Lawrence Joseph that focus on poetry and poetics, and on what it is to be a poet. He takes the reader through the aesthetics of modernism and postmodernism, a lineage that includes Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, and Gertrude Stein, switching critical tracks to major European poets like Eugenio Montale and Hans Magnus Enzensberger, and back to American masters like James Schuyler and Adrienne Rich.
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- Full title :The game changed : essays and other prose / Lawrence Joseph.
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This book presents works by Lawrence Joseph that focus on poetry and poetics, and on what it is to be a poet. He takes the reader through the aesthetics of modernism and postmodernism, a lineage that includes Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, and Gertrude Stein, switching critical tracks to major European poets like Eugenio Montale and Hans Magnus Enzensberger, and back to American masters like James Schuyler and Adrienne Rich.
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- Publication Date:2011.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):University of Michigan Press
- Place of Publication:Ann Arbor
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2011.
The Physical Object
- Description:x, 162 pages ; : 21 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780472071616, 0472071610, 9780472051618, 047205161X, 9780472027743, 0472027743
- oclc:ocn714505166
- LC Classification:PS3560.O775
- Dewey Decimal:814/.54
Table of Contents
The poet and the lawyer: the example of Wallace Stevens -- Michael Schmidt's Lives of the poets -- A note on "that's all" -- Tony Harrison and Michael Hofmann -- Frederick Seidel -- Enzensberger's Kiosk -- "Our lives are here": Notes from a journal, Detroit, 1975 -- John Ashbery and Adrienne Rich -- James Schuyler's The morning of the poem -- Word made flesh -- A few reflections on poetry and language -- Hayden Carruth -- Marilyn Hacker -- Aspects of Weldon Kees -- Smokey Robinson's high tenor voice -- Joyce Carol Oates's Blonde -- Marie Ponsot -- Conversation with Charles Bernstein -- Working rules for Lawyerland -- The game changed -- Being in the language of poetry, being in the language of law.
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