This Connection of Everyone with Lungs
Title | This Connection of Everyone with Lungs PDF eBook |
Author | Juliana Spahr |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 96 |
Release | 2005-04 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780520242951 |
"In a time of war, dirty air, missile worship when all oracles seem silenced, from every eco-lyric pore these fine auroras of This Connection of Everyone With Lungs have been streaming. Registering 9/11 as cellular rupture, this is a work of full globality which redeems our time, makes us remember all that poetry is capable of as form, frame, syntax linking air, earth, lung; what Emerson meant by lyric language as nothing less than externalization of planet's soul."—Rob Wilson, author of Waking in Seoul "By listing, by naming, the atrocities—the harrowing stats, the scary particulars—in our world-at-endless-war—we might at least exert control over our sanity and extend our mind and compassion to others. It is a connected universe as Spahr so forcefully and powerfully reminds us. This Connection of Everyone with Lungs is a sustained and anaphoric meditation, a catharsis for our predicament."—Anne Waldman
Well Then There Now
Title | Well Then There Now PDF eBook |
Author | Juliana Spahr |
Publisher | Black Sparrow Books |
Pages | 158 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 1574232177 |
Accretion, articulation, exploration, transformation, naming, sentiment, private and public property - these are just a few of Juliana Spahr's interests. From her first poem, written in Honolulu, Hawaii, to the last, written in Berkeley, California, about her childhood in Appalachia, Spahr takes us on a wild patchwork journey backwards and forwards in time and space, tracking change - in ecology, society, economies, herself. Through a collage of "found language," a deep curiosity about place, and a restless intelligence, Spahr demonstrates the vibrant possibilities of investigatory poetics"--P. [4] of cover.
An Army of Lovers
Title | An Army of Lovers PDF eBook |
Author | David Buuck |
Publisher | City Lights Publishers |
Pages | 154 |
Release | 2013-10-15 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0872866297 |
In the age of Occupy, An Army of Lovers reasks the question, what is the relationship between poetry and politics?
Persons and Things
Title | Persons and Things PDF eBook |
Author | Barbara Johnson |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 276 |
Release | 2008-04-30 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780674026384 |
Moving effortlessly between symbolist poetry and Barbie dolls, artificial intelligence and Kleist, Kant, and Winnicott, Barbara Johnson not only clarifies psychological and social dynamics; she also re-dramatizes the work of important tropes—without ever losing sight of the ethical imperative with which she begins: the need to treat persons as persons. In Persons and Things, Johnson turns deconstruction around to make a fundamental contribution to the new aesthetics. She begins with the most elementary thing we know: deconstruction calls attention to gaps and reveals that their claims upon us are fraudulent. Johnson revolutionizes the method by showing that the inanimate thing exposed as a delusion is central to fantasy life, that fantasy life, however deluded, should be taken seriously, and that although a work of art “is formed around something missing,” this “void is its vanishing point, not its essence.” She shows deftly and delicately that the void inside Keats’s urn, Heidegger’s jug, or Wallace Stevens’s jar forms the center around which we tend to organize our worlds. The new aesthetics should restore fluidities between persons and things. In pursuing it, Johnson calls upon Ovid, Keats, Poe, Plath, and others who have inhabited this in-between space. The entire process operates via a subtlety that only a critic of Johnson’s caliber could reveal to us.
That Winter the Wolf Came
Title | That Winter the Wolf Came PDF eBook |
Author | Juliana Spahr |
Publisher | Commune Editions |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 9781934639177 |
Renewed poetry of struggle at the intersection of ecological and economic catastrophe--feminist, ferocious, and finally celebratory.
Fuck You-Aloha-I Love You
Title | Fuck You-Aloha-I Love You PDF eBook |
Author | Juliana Spahr |
Publisher | Wesleyan University Press |
Pages | 100 |
Release | 2001-11-27 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 9780819565259 |
This book of "documentary poetics" is by an important up and coming female experimentalist.
Go Ahead in the Rain
Title | Go Ahead in the Rain PDF eBook |
Author | Hanif Abdurraqib |
Publisher | University of Texas Press |
Pages | 216 |
Release | 2019-02-01 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1477318445 |
A New York Times Best Seller 2019 National Book Award Longlist, Nonfiction 2019 Kirkus Book Prize Finalist, Nonfiction A February IndieNext Pick Named A Most Anticipated Book of 2019 by Buzzfeed, Nylon, The A. V. Club, CBC Books, and The Rumpus, and a Winter's Most Anticipated Book by Vanity Fair and The Week Starred Reviews: Kirkus and Booklist "Warm, immediate and intensely personal."—New York Times How does one pay homage to A Tribe Called Quest? The seminal rap group brought jazz into the genre, resurrecting timeless rhythms to create masterpieces such as The Low End Theory and Midnight Marauders. Seventeen years after their last album, they resurrected themselves with an intense, socially conscious record, We Got It from Here . . . Thank You 4 Your Service, which arrived when fans needed it most, in the aftermath of the 2016 election. Poet and essayist Hanif Abdurraqib digs into the group’s history and draws from his own experience to reflect on how its distinctive sound resonated among fans like himself. The result is as ambitious and genre-bending as the rap group itself. Abdurraqib traces the Tribe's creative career, from their early days as part of the Afrocentric rap collective known as the Native Tongues, through their first three classic albums, to their eventual breakup and long hiatus. Their work is placed in the context of the broader rap landscape of the 1990s, one upended by sampling laws that forced a reinvention in production methods, the East Coast–West Coast rivalry that threatened to destroy the genre, and some record labels’ shift from focusing on groups to individual MCs. Throughout the narrative Abdurraqib connects the music and cultural history to their street-level impact. Whether he’s remembering The Source magazine cover announcing the Tribe’s 1998 breakup or writing personal letters to the group after bandmate Phife Dawg’s death, Abdurraqib seeks the deeper truths of A Tribe Called Quest; truths that—like the low end, the bass—are not simply heard in the head, but felt in the chest.