Defensive Measures: The Poetry of Niedecker, Bishop, Glück, and CarsonMuch of our strongest poetry that learned its lessons from early modernism lives by its defensive measures, that is, by means of reversing, inverting, and challenging in covert ways a dominant perceptual mode. Defensive Measures explores strategies by which poets claim their distinctiveness, and argues that poetry is the one literary form that most insistently demands a defense. It demands a defense, it would seem, because it is perpetually in crisis - not only in regard to its utility and its aesthetic appeal (or the vigor of its renunciation of such an appeal), but in regard to its generic existence. Upton defines a generative conception of defense and examines in a new light the poetry of Lorine Niedecker, Elizabeth Bishop, Louise Gluck, and Anne Carson. In writing about Bishop. Upton puts this well-regarded poet in a new framework, aligning her work with that of three poets whose aesthetics might be viewed as antithetical to her own ... |
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Louis Zukofsky and the Poetry of Knowledge . Tuscaloosa : University of
Alabama Press , 1998 . Shelley . A Defense of Poetry . Edited by Albert S . Cook .
Boston : Ginn , 1891 . Shetley , Vernon . After the Death of Poetry : Poet and
Audience in ...
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Acknowledgments | 11 |
Defensive | 32 |
Defensive Nonsense in Elizabeth | 56 |
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