How Poets See the World The Art of Description in Contemporary Poetry 1st Edition by Willard Spiegelman ISBN 0195174917 9780195174915

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ISBN 10: 0195174917 

ISBN 13: 9780195174915

Author:  Willard Spiegelman 

Although readers of prose fiction sometimes find descriptive passages superfluous or boring, description itself is often the most important aspect of a poem. This book examines how a variety of contemporary poets use description in their work. Description has been the great burden of poetry. How do poets see the world? How do they look at it? What do they look for? Is description an end in itself, or a means of expressing desire? Ezra Pound demanded that a poem should represent the external world as objectively and directly as possible, and William Butler Yeats, in his introduction to The Oxford Book of Modern Verse (1936), said that he and his generation were rebelling against, inter alia, “irrelevant descriptions of nature” in the work of their predecessors. The poets in this book, however, who are distinct in many ways from one another, all observe the external world of nature or the reflected world of art, and make relevant poems out of their observations.

Table of contents:

ONE The Way Things Look Each Day: Poetry, Description, Nature
TWO Just Looking: Charles Tomlinson and the Labour of Observation
THREE What to Make of an Augmented Thing: Amy Clampitt’s Syntactic Dramas
FOUR Charles Wright and the Metaphysics of the Quotidian
FIVE A Space for Boundless Revery: Varieties of Ekphrastic Experience
SIX John Ashbery’s Haunted Landscapes
SEVEN Jorie Graham’s New Way of Looking

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