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OverviewWhat happens when we think of poetry as a global literary form, while also thinking the global in poetic terms? Forms of a World shows how the innovations of contemporary poetics have been forged through the transformations of globalization across five decades. Sensing the changes wrought by neoliberalism before they are made fully present, poets from around the world have creatively intervened in global processes by remaking poetry's formal repertoire. In experimental reinventions of the ballad, the prospect poem, and the ode, Hunter excavates a new, globalized interpretation of the ethical and political relevance of forms. Forms of a World contends that poetry's role is not only to make visible thematically the violence of global dispossessions, but to renew performatively the missing conditions for intervening within these processes. Poetic acts-the rhetoric of possessing, belonging, exhorting, and prospecting-address contemporary conditions that render social life ever more precarious. Examining an eclectic group of Anglophone poets, from Seamus Heaney and Claudia Rankine to Natasha Trethewey and Kofi Awoonor, Hunter elaborates the range of ways that contemporary poets exhort us to imagine forms of social life and enable political intervention unique to but beyond the horizon of the contemporary global situation. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Walt HunterPublisher: Fordham University Press Imprint: Fordham University Press ISBN: 9780823282227ISBN 10: 0823282228 Pages: 192 Publication Date: 08 January 2019 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 1. Stolen Landscapes: The Investments of the Ode and the Politics of Land 19 2. Let Us Go: Lyric and the Transit of Citizenship 44 3. The Crowd to Come: Poetic Exhortations from Brooklyn to Kashmir 65 4. The No-Prospect Poem: Poetic Views of the Anthropocene 90 Coda 119 Acknowledgments 129 Notes 133 Bibliography 165 Index 183ReviewsIn a field dominated by the novel, we need smart critics like Walt Hunter to reveal poetry's very different engagements with politics and economics. From territorial dispossession to environmental devastation, Hunter shows the agonies of globalization prompting subtle and inventive poetic responses.--Caroline Levine, Cornell University This smart, engaging, and timely book rethinks periodization according to the rhythms of capitalism. Finely written, with many moments of startling beauty and poetic nuance, Forms of a World offers a crucial reassessment of poetry's importance today--Christopher Nealon, Johns Hopkins University Author InformationWalt Hunter is Associate Professor of World Literature at Clemson University. He is co-translator of Frédéric Neyrat’s Atopias: Manifesto for a Radical Existentialism. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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