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The Metropoetics of Paterson
[...]the passage documenting Mrs. Cumming's fall to her death in 1812 comes clothed in a rhetorical pathos suitable to an unfortunate ac- cident (14--15), but the poem's de-idealizing recontextualization raises previously unarticulated questions of whether she might have jumped or been pushed in- stead (20).2 Similarly, a document describing the destruction of millions of mus- sels in 1857 appears originally as an interesting anecdote but in the new context as exemplary of human greed and ecological disaster (8--9). [...]the poem's re- assemblage of the city's historical records makes the manipulations inherent in documentary discourse more visible to the eye and the contents correspondingly less plausible. \"Sunday in the Park\" employs complementary tropes of metonymy (the lovers figuring sexuality, the immigrants sociality) and asyndeton (the suppression of linking words such as conjunctions or adverbs be- tween the passages depicting these groups). [...]Book II displaces the tempta- tion toward a totalizing rhetoric visible in the opening pages of Book I with a walking rhetoric of disconnected fragments and singular practices. [...]in Paterson, imaginative musings, quoted texts, observed scenes, and poetic metacommentary alternate with each other in a seemingly provisional and poten- tially endless way. Revising some of Eliot and Crane's most striking tropes, he rejected their wish to move beyond time and concerned himself instead with the social, cultural, and linguistic world before him. [...]we perceive a break between the modernists and the postmodernists, with Williams serving as the pivot.
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Amy Gerstler’s Rhetoric of Marriage
Axelrod and Axelrod explore Amy Gerstler's poems, which deal with romance and weddings. Gerstler's texts evoke pairings that are inimical, furious, doomed, or ambiguous. They provide a discontinuous, disenchanted discourse of marriage, one haunted by earlier narratives, by congeries of dislike, unmet needs, and refusals to let go.
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