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OverviewOn the peripheries of UK poetry culture during his lifetime, W. S. Graham is now recognized one of the great poets of the twentieth century. In the first concerted study of Graham's poetics in a generation, David Nowell Smith argues that Graham is exemplary for the poetics of the mid-century: his extension of modernist explorations of rhythm and diction; his interweaving of linguistic and geographic places; his dialogue with the plastic arts; and the tensions that run through his work, between philosophical seriousness and play, solitude and sociality, regionalism and cosmopolitanism, the heft and evanescence of poetry's medium. Drawing on newly unearthed archival materials, Nowell Smith orients Graham's poetics around the question of the 'art object'. Graham sought to craft his poems into honed, finished 'objects'; yet he was also aware that the poem's 'finished object' is never wholly finished. Graham's work thus facilitates a broader reflection on language as a medium for art-making. Full Product DetailsAuthor: David Nowell Smith (Associate Professor of Poetry/Poetics, University of East Anglia)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Edition: 1 Dimensions: Width: 14.50cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.40cm Weight: 0.544kg ISBN: 9780192842909ISBN 10: 0192842900 Pages: 298 Publication Date: 02 June 2022 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of Contents1: 'to make / An object' 2: 'He found his poetry arm' 3: 'A poem is made of words' 4: 'to interrupt silence into / Manmade durations' 5: 'my eye imprisoned by Art' 6: 'Speaking to you and not' 7: 'but I was only remembered' Postscript: 'Do not expect applause' Appendix 1: Composition Dates of Graham s Poems from Malcolm Mooney s Land and Implements in their Places Appendix 2: Archive MaterialsReviewsAuthor InformationDavid Nowell Smith is Associate Professor of Poetry/Poetics at the University of East Anglia. He is author of Sounding/Silence (Fordham University Press, 2013) and On Voice in Poetry (Palgrave, 2015), as well as numerous articles on the fundamental concepts of poetics. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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