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基本説明
The essays, gathered in one volume for the first time, include commentaries on Jack Spicer, Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Mary Butts, George Bowering, Louis Dudek, Christos Dikeakos, and J. S. Bach.
Full Description
Spanning four decades of meditation on the avant-garde in poetry, art, and philosophy, the essays collected in "The Fire" reveal Robin Blaser's strikingly fresh perspective on "New American" poets, deconstructive philosophies, current events, and the state of humanities now. The essays, gathered in one volume for the first time, include commentaries on Jack Spicer, Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Mary Butts, George Bowering, Louis Dudek, Christos Dikeakos, and J. S. Bach. Blaser emerged from the "Berkeley Renaissance" of the 1940s and 1950s having studied under legendary medieval scholar Ernst Kantorowicz and having been a major participant in the burgeoning literary scene. His response to the cultural and political events of his time has been to construct a poetic voice that offers a singular perspective on a shareable world - and to pose that voice alongside others as a source of countermemory and potential agency. Conceived as conversations, these essays brilliantly reflect that ethos as they re-read the cultural events of the past fifty years.
Contents
List of Illustrations Preface PART I POETICS The Fire (1967) Particles (1969) The Stadium of the Mirror (1974) Poetry and Positivisms (1989) The Recovery of the Public World (1993) Among Afterthoughts on This Occasion (1993) out of the velvet the denim the straw of my mind (1999) The Imaginary Letters by Mary Butts: Afterword (1979) George Bowering's Plain Song (1980) The Violets: Charles Olson and Alfred North Whitehead (1983) Mind Canaries" (1986) My Vocabulary Did This to Me" (1987) Infinite Worlds: The Poetry of Louis Dudek: Introduction (1988) The Elf" of It (1992) 283 Preface to the Early Poems of Robert Duncan (1995) Here Lies the Woodpecker Who Was Zeus" (1995) Bach's Belief (1995) Love Will Eat the Empire: A Commentary on the Essays of Robin Blaser Chronology Editor's Notes Bibliography Works Cited Works by Robin Blaser Works about Robin Blaser Acknowledgments of Permissions Index
