This Ghostly Poetry

Author : Daniel Aguirre-Otezia
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487518854
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book This Ghostly Poetry written by Daniel Aguirre-Otezia and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2020-04-02 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Spanish Civil War was idealized as a poet’s war. The thousands of poems written about the conflict are memorable evidence of poetry’s high cultural and political value in those historical conditions. After Franco’s victory and the repression that followed, numerous Republican exiles relied on the symbolic agency of poetry to uphold a sense of national identity. Exilic poems are often read as claim-making narratives that fit national literary history. This Ghostly Poetry critiques this conventional understanding of literary history by arguing that exilic poems invite readers to seek continuity with a traumatic past just as they prevent their narrative articulation. The book uses the figure of the ghost to address temporal challenges to historical continuity brought about by memory, tracing the discordant, disruptive ways in which memory is interwoven with history in poems written in exile. Taking a novel approach to cultural memory, This Ghostly Poetry engages with literature, history, and politics while exploring issues of voice, time, representation, and disciplinarity.

Author : Diana Khoi Nguyen
Publisher : Omnidawn Open
ISBN 13 : 9781632430526
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ghost of written by Diana Khoi Nguyen and published by Omnidawn Open. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Omnidawn Open Poetry Book Prize

Author : Dexter L. Booth
Publisher : Graywolf Press
ISBN 13 : 9781555976606
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scratching the Ghost written by Dexter L. Booth and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize, selected by Major Jackson The stub of your left leg dangles as I hold you up, my hands inserted under your arms like a child. You are complaining about the itch, the burn; scratch the ghost of your calf and heel. —from "Scratching the Ghost" Dexter L. Booth's ruminations on loss in this award-winning debut are rooted in a time past but one still palpable and persistent. Here are memories of love lost, family mourned, a father absent, ghosts of hometowns and childhood. Here too is a "Short Letter to the Twentieth Century" and, finally, a "Long Letter to the Twentieth Century," as if across this collection the poet is mustering up the force to speak back to history. "In Dexter Booth's Scratching the Ghost, a cracked egg means the universe is splitting, the slap of a double-dutch rope is a broken-throated hymn, and splitting a squealing hog is akin to lovemaking. These are poems loyal to their own intrepid logic and reckless plausibility. Yet, lest the reader get too giddy in a fun house of mirrors, here, too, are the melodic laments and remarkable lyric passages of a poet who acknowledges the infinite current of melancholy that underlines his journey." —Major Jackson

Author : Daniel Aguirre-Oteiza
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487503814
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book This Ghostly Poetry written by Daniel Aguirre-Oteiza and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2020 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Ghostly Poetry explores the fraught relationship between poetry and literary history in the context of the Spanish Civil War, its aftermath, and ongoing debates about historical memory in Spain.

Author : Al Maginnes
Publisher : White Pine Press (NY)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ghost Alphabet written by Al Maginnes and published by White Pine Press (NY). This book was released on 2008 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Maginnes effortlessly merges the experimental and the metaphysical, the erotic and the spiritual."-Peter Johnson

Author : Amy Gerstler
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1440684138
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ghost Girl written by Amy Gerstler and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-04-06 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sly and sophisticated, direct, playful, and profound, Amy Gerstler’s new collection highlights her distinctive poetic style. In thirty-seven poems, using a variety of dramatic voices and visual techniques, she finds meaning in unexpected places, from a tour of a doll hospital to an ad for a CD of Beethoven symphonies to an earthy exploration of toast. Gerstler’s abiding interests—in love and mourning, in science and pseudoscience, in the idea of an afterlife, in seances and magic—are all represented here. Entertaining and erudite, complex yet accessible, these poems will enhance Gerstler’s reputation as an important contemporary poet.

Author : Ann Keniston
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1609383532
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ghostly Figures written by Ann Keniston and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2015-10 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Sylvia Plath’s depictions of the Holocaust as a group of noncohering “bits” to AIDS elegies’ assertions that the dead posthumously persist in ghostly form and Susan Howe’s insistence that the past can be conveyed only through juxtaposed “scraps,” the condition of being too late is one that haunts post-World War II American poetry. This is a poetry saturated with temporal delay, partial recollection of the past, and the revelation that memory itself is accessible only in obstructed and manipulated ways. These postwar poems do not merely describe the condition of lateness: they enact it literally and figuratively by distorting chronology, boundary, and syntax, by referring to events indirectly, and by binding the condition of lateness to the impossibility of verifying the past. The speakers of these poems often indicate that they are too late by repetitively chronicling distorted events, refusing closure or resolution, and forging ghosts out of what once was tangible. Ghostly Figures contends that this poetics of belatedness, along with the way it is bound to questions of poetic making, is a central, if critically neglected, force in postwar American poetry. Discussing works by Sylvia Plath, Adrienne Rich, Jorie Graham, Susan Howe, and a group of poets responding to the AIDS epidemic, Ann Keniston draws on and critically assesses trauma theory and psychoanalysis, as well as earlier discussions of witness, elegy, lyric trope and figure, postmodernism, allusion, and performance, to define the ghosts that clearly dramatize poetics of belatedness throughout the diverse poetry of post–World War II America.

Author : Joseph Lease
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781566895118
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Body Ghost written by Joseph Lease and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spare, airy, exacting poems whose quietness is often at an ironic counterpoint to their strident leftist politics.

Author : Michael Wasson
Publisher : Vinyl Poetry 45's
ISBN 13 : 9781936919529
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book This American Ghost written by Michael Wasson and published by Vinyl Poetry 45's. This book was released on 2017-06-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Iain Haley Pollock
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781938584954
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ghost, Like a Place written by Iain Haley Pollock and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pollock's poetry draws from the violent history of America, showing how it inevitably influences young minds coming of age.