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W. S. Graham, Dramatist of the Beast in Language
Time is nonetheless our opportunity for \"spiritual integration\". But whereas space is a brute outside that it pays to be wary of, language can run with time and at the same time deceive it, as it were, through an \"untense, casual level of idiom,\" which one can hope is nonetheless \"exciting poetically\". Time seems agreeable to language and its integrations, whereas space has no knowledge of it; even its echoes are frauds. Here, Bedient examines how W. S. Graham makes the language of poetry an urgent topic, blowing up its painfulness.
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The Predicament of Modern Poetry (The Lyric at the Pinch-Gate)
For the sake of creating a deliciously hurt feeling, the poem indulges the famous rumor of a power of song that, accompanied by the lyre, the instrument that gives its name to the lyric, made rock, trees, and beasts bow to its will to harmonize the Me and the Not-me, feeling and substance. \"Mondo Orfeo\" is a religious lyric foiled as such, turned back on itself, even as it slips and coaxes Roman Catholic terminology into our five o'clock lives: \"Acolytes,\" if ironically just of the \"tactile\"; \"servants,\" if just of \"the articulate\"; and, egregiously, \"Saint Shush,\" the figure that accomplishes the poem's self-silencing in a closing line that knows no shame when it comes to being picturesque.
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Passion and War: Reading Sontag, Viola, Forché and Others
Bedient examines the works of Susan Sontag, Bill Viola, and Carolyn Forche, among others. Sontag's Regarding the Pain of Others, a book of war photographs, Forche's poem Blue Hour, and Viola's The Passions, a film and video series, depict war and passion.
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I Love Artists
Drawing on four decades of work and including new poems published here for the first time, this selection of Mei-mei Berssenbrugge’s poetry displays the extraordinary luminosity characteristic of her style—its delicate, meticulous observation, great scenic imagination, and unusual degree of comfort with states of indetermination, contingency, and flux.
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The Totality for Kids
The Totality for Kidsis the second collection of poems by Joshua Clover, whose debut,Madonna anno domini, won the Walt Whitman award from the Academy of American Poets. This volume takes as its subject the troubled sleep of late modernity, from the grandeur and failure of megacities to the retreats and displacements of the suburbs. The power of crowds and architecture commingles with the alienation and idleness of the observer, caught between \"the brutal red dream/Of the collective\" and \"the parade/Of the ideal citizen.\" The book's action takes place in these gaps, \"dead spaces beside the endlessly grieving stream.\" The frozen tableau of the spectacle meets its double in the sense that something is always about to happen. Political furies and erotic imaginings coalesce and escape within a welter of unmoored allusions, encounters, citations, and histories, the dreams possible within the modern's excess of signification-as if to return revolutionary possibility to the regime of information by singing it its own song.
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