Overview

The stimulating mix of academics and practising poets that have contributed to this volume provides an unusual and illuminating integration of critical and creative practice and a vibrantly diverse approach to questions of poetry and sexuality. Each section of essays is complemented by poems which creatively illustrate or develop the theme with which the essays critically engage. Rather than being limited to a specific genre, tradition, time or place, this collection seeks to make a virtue of contrast, comparison and juxtaposition. The collection is arranged into sections that range broadly across the thematic ground of dichotomies, traditions and revisions, microscopic and macroscopic perspectives, women and embodiment, and the notion of play and performance. Positioning eighteenth-century tinkers ballads alongside medieval Hebrew lyrics and the Blues of Gorgeous Puddin’, or making Dionysus rub shoulders with Sharon Olds and Mrs Rochester provides new perspectives on familiar material and valuable insights into more obscure work and the nature of sensual poetry as a mode of expression. As the editors suggest, the essays and poems presented collectively argue that writings about sexuality are always already about the way poets see and represent our bodies, the world and poetic language itself.

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Author:   Glennis Byron ,  Andrew J. Sneddon
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Editions Rodopi B.V.
Volume:   42
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.00cm
Weight:   0.717kg
ISBN:  

9789042024229

ISBN 10:   9042024224
Pages:   360
Publication Date:   01 January 2008
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Glennis BYRON and Andrew J. SNEDDON: Introduction Section I: Dichotomies Vicki FEAVER: The River God Richard GWYN: Sexual Water: Poetry, Dionysus and The Aquatic Ape Richard GWYN: Hunger for Salt Richard GWYN: Love Story Matt BRENNAN: ‘When The Horn Fits, Blow it’: Music in Erotic Poetry Rishma DUNLOP: Slow Dancing: Beaconsfield 1973 Bron BATEMAN: Singularity Section II: Traditions and Revisions Vicki FEAVER: Judith Andrew VOGEL ETTIN: Poetics of Sacred Desire in Medieval Hebrew Poetry Cedric BARFOOT: The Buoyant Milkman C.C. BARFOOT: The Tinker as an Erotic Icon Joan HEWITT: Reading Between the Lines Nick SELBY: ‘The Poem upon the Page is as Massive as Anne’s Thighs’: Textual Promiscuity in Ted Berrigan’s The Sonnets Rishma DUNLOP: Notes from a Journal James Thomas STEVENS: (Re)Claiming the Twin-Spirit: Queer Pan-Indian Postcolonial Poets Stephanie NORGATE: Dialect T.L. COWAN: Genealogies of Sex and Landscape in Poetry by Robert Kroetsch and Shane Rhodes Section III: From Virus to Vista Erin BELIEU: Tick Sarah P. GAMBLE: A Poetics Of Erasure: Mark Doty’s Queer Coast Cedric BARFOOT: Fissures Tatiani G. RAPATZIKOU: Viral Seduction and ‘Penetrated’ Bodies in Rob Hardin’s Poetry Vicki FEAVER: Rope Franca BELLARSI: Sex and the Body in Michael Mcclure’s Quest ‘for the Mammal self’ Vicki FEAVER: Marigolds Anna RECKIN: ‘Relaxed into Intricate Thicket’: Ronald Johnson’s Green Poetics Chris POWICI: Spate Chris POWICI: Like Rain Section IV: Women and Embodiment Bron BATEMAN: Play Helen FARISH: The ‘Interfering Flesh’ and the Search for the ‘Full Life’ in the Poetry of Louise Gluck and Sharon Olds Erin BELIEU: Wayward Girl Erin BELIEU: Erections Amina YAQIN: ‘Badan Darida’ (The Body Torn): Gender and Sexuality in Pakistani Women’s Poetry Evie SHOCKLEY: A Poem About Anna WOODFORD: Sex Education Gerold SEDLMAYR: Sexuality, Monstrosity and Mythology in Contemporary Irish Women’s Poetry Stephanie NORGATE: Mrs Rochester Section V: Play and Performance Anne FISHER-WIRTH: After Many Years She Returns to the Stage in a Play by Tennessee Williams Anthony CALESHU: ‘I Sent my Love to the Showers’: Surrealism, Love, and Posture in the Poetry of James Tate Anna WOODFORD: The Higgins’ Honeymoon Soeren HATTESEN BALLE: Slips of the Pun: Signifying Sex in the Poetry of John Ashbery Joan HEWITT: Proof Honni Van RIJSWIJK: Judy Grahn’s Violent, Feminist Camp Bron BATEMAN: Girls Like That Notes on Contributors Index

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