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008			170518s2017 iau ob s001 0 eng d
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020			_a9781609384814 _q((electronic)l(electronic)ctronic)
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050	0	4	_aPS323 _b.W758 2017
049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aFisher, Tom, _d1969- _e1
245	1	0	_aWriting not writing : _bpoetry, crisis, and responsibility / _cTom Fisher.
260			_aIowa City : _bUniversity of Iowa Press, _c(c)2017.
300			_a1 online resource.
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338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
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490	0		_aContemp North American poetry
520	0		_a"The poet George Oppen comments, "There are situations which cannot honorably [be] met by art, and surely no one need fiddle precisely at the moment that the house next door is burning." To write poetry under such circumstances, he continues, "would be a treason to one's neighbor." Committing himself, then, to more direct and conventional forms of response and responsibility, Oppen leaves poetry behind for twenty-five years. The disasters of the 1930s, for Oppen, put poetry into a fundamental question that could not be resolved or overcome. Yet if crisis is continual, then poetry is always turning away from the neighbor in need, always an irresponsible response in a world persistently falling apart. Writing Not Writing both confirms this question into which crisis puts poetry and explores alternative modes of "response" and "responsibility" that poetry makes possible. Reading the silences of Oppen, Carl Rakosi, and Bob Kaufman, the renunciation of Laura Riding, and other more contemporary instances and modes of poetic abnegation, Tom Fisher explores silence, refusal, and disavowal as political and ethical modes of response in a time of continuous crisis. Through a turn away from writing, these poets offer strategies of refusal and departure that leave anagrammatical hollows behind, activating the negational capacities of writing and aesthetics to disrupt the empire of sense, speech, and agency. Fisher's work is both an engaging and detailed analysis of four individual poets who left poetry behind and a theoretically provocative exploration of the political and ethical possibilities of silence, not-doing, and disavowal. In lucid but nuanced terms, Fisher makes the case that, from at least modernism forward, poetry is marked by refusals of speech and sense in order to open possibilities of response outside conventional forms of responsibility"-- _cProvided by publisher.
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505	0	0	_aPreface; Introduction: "No More Words"; 1. A Political Poetics: The Essential Life of the Poem; 2. Laura Riding and the End of Poetry; 3. "Waiting for a Poem": Work and Writing; 4. The Audible and the Inaudible: The Politics of Silence; Conclusion: Writing's Refusal; Notes; Works Cited; Index
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600	1	0	_aOppen, George _xCriticism and interpretation.
600	1	0	_aRakosi, Carl, _d1903-2004 _xCriticism and interpretation.
600	1	0	_aKaufman, Bob _xCriticism and interpretation.
600	1	0	_aRiding, Laura, _d1901-1991 _xCriticism and interpretation.
650		0	_aAmerican poetry _y20th century _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aLiterature and society _zUnited States _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aPoetics _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aResponsibility in literature.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell