Difficult Ornaments
Florida and the Poets
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- Kiadó OUP USA
- Megjelenés dátuma 2024. december 24.
- ISBN 9780197776551
- Kötéstípus Keménykötés
- Terjedelem178 oldal
- Méret 218x147x22 mm
- Súly 318 g
- Nyelv angol 623
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Rövid leírás:
This book draws on the works and lives of six poets, illustrating how the state of Florida inspired twentieth-century poets to new subject matter and forms, expanding and deepening the American experiment in English-language poetry.
TöbbHosszú leírás:
This is a book about the works that six twentieth-century American poets created in and about the state of Florida--or, in one case, refused to create. Those poets who nourished their muse on Florida's landscape, history, and myths in turn helped perpetuate those myths: they keep an idea of Florida alive in the cultural imagination and in the language. They were not regional poets, because they did not live here permanently. But they do contribute to a psychogeography: theirs is a Florida that one can access from anywhere in the world through the pages of their books.
It so happens that these poets compose a chain of personal friendship and influence: Marianne Moore was friendly with Wallace Stevens, Elizabeth Bishop was friendly with Moore, James Merrill was friendly with Bishop, and socialized frequently with Harry Mathews when both had houses in Key West. Only Riding, who rose to prominence in the 1920s, gave up poetry around 1941, and moved to Wabasso in 1943 to live an isolated existence, stands apart. And yet there are correspondences to be drawn between her work and Merrill's, for instance.
The word "ornament" is used by both biologists and literary critics to describe the extras of beauty; but whether it is the encumbrance of a peacock's tail or the profusion of metaphor, ornaments are also seen as "difficult." What is it about "difficult ornaments" that make poems surprising, distinctive, and enduring? And does a proximity to the tropics-nature's own laboratory-compel poets to reach for invention and experiment? Does Florida contribute to an "evolution" of poetics? That's what this book explores.
Difficult Ornaments brilliantly reveals how the lush Floridian landscape inspired six twentieth-century American poets. Subtly and discerningly, Mlinko examines the peacock character of the state and of poetry alike, in order to clarify the often-overlooked power of poetic ornament.
Tartalomjegyzék:
Preface
1: Introduction: Biological Ornament, Difficult Ornament
2: Wallace Stevens: Green Cocoanut Ice Cream
3: Marianne Moore: Piracy and Unicorn Horns
4: Elizabeth Bishop: A Queer Antique Musical Instrument Floating in the Sea
5: James Merrill: Silver Springs and Manatee Kisses
6: Harry Mathews: Cool Gales
7: Epilogue: Laura (Riding) Jackson
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Index
