In The Revolting Body of Poetry, Scott Shinabargar explores both the potential and problematics of phonetic articulations in modern French poetry, focusing on the work of Baudelaire, Lautréamont, Césaire, and Char.
In response, this book argues that the body appears–often literally–as a kind of gap, breach, or aperture through which Rimbaud's poems enter into contact with history and a larger body of other texts.
In response, this book argues that the body appears–often literally–as a kind of gap, breach, or aperture through which Rimbaud's poems enter into contact with history and a larger body of other texts.
... or, as Nabile Farès calls him, “le Re-naissant” (the Re-born).17 Louis Aragon (1897–1982) understood this well, and gave us a few keys to it in Le fou d'Elsa (Elsa's Madman), published in 1963 and, in the style of Kateb, ...
... place where the poetic self can dissolve without throwing the world the poem represents into chaos. I appreciate poems that “problematize” the self, to use one common critical term, rather than pretending that the selves of the speaker ...
... revolting bodies find little echo in pertinent contemporary imagery, which is much more anatomically focussed, tracing procedures within the body, with a camera's eye devoid of revulsion. Other ... Bodies in Contemporary German Poetry.
Renate Rechtien, Karoline Von Oppen. Ruth J. Owen Bodies in Contemporary German Poetry Work by three poets who have articulated corporeal poetologies – Anne Duden, Durs Grünbein and Ulla Hahn – is at the core of the primary material ...
... poetry, in which Gordon would be voiced by the poet. As an embodiment, a body reintegrated with spirit, Gordon is transformed in both Mais's play and Mckay's poem from a revolting (repulsive and resistant) body into a rebelling agent of ...
"--Los Angeles Times Valzhyna Mort is a dynamic Belarusian poet, and Collected Body is her first collection composed in English. Whether writing about sex, relatives, violence, or fish markets as opera, Mort insists on vibrant, dark truths.
Fun House Mirror Sonnets? Here. The emotional semantics of Hollandaise sauce? Here. These are poems of loss and reckoning; yet these nimble poems also claim life, in tooth and claw, and the possibilities of love.
Blake Marcelle's poetry takes up the difficult task of cataloging the rages and forgivenesses of the body.