Close Calls with Nonsense Reading New Poetry

by Burt, Stephen

• ISBN13: 9781555975210
• ISBN10: 1555975216
• Edition: Original
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-03-31
• Publisher: Graywolf Press

Summary

Stephen Burt's Close Calls with Nonsense provokes readers into the elliptical worlds of Rae Armantrout, Paul Muldoon, C. D. Wright, and other contemporary poets whose complexities make them challenging, original, and, finally, readable. Burt's intelligence and enthusiasm introduce both tentative and longtime poetry readers to the rewards of reading new poetry.

Author Biography

STEPHEN BURT is the author of two critical books on poetry as well as two poetry collections, including Parallel Play. His essays and reviews have appeared in The Believer, The Nation, and The New York Times Book Review. He teaches at Harvard University.

Table of Contents

Preface: In Favor of One's Time	p. ix
Close Calls with Nonsense: How to Read, and Perhaps Enjoy, Very New Poetry	p. 5
Where Every Eye's a Guard	p. 23
Lightsource, Aperture, Face: C. D. Wright and Photography	p. 41
Dream Sermons	p. 61
The One I Love Needs Sunblock	p. 71
How I Got From Dictionary to Here	p. 79
Undocumentary	p. 91
Cool among Shadows and Cellophane	p. 95
Believe Your Naysayers	p. 99
Envisioning Pain	p. 107
Here Is the Door Marked Heaven	p. 117
My Name Is Henri: Contemporary Poets Discover	p. 129
I Do Not Expect You to Like It	p. 147
From the Planet Dungog	p. 163
Already Knotted In	p. 175
Write Another Party	p. 183
Kinesthetic Aesthetics	p. 199
Early	p. 215
Late	p. 225
Everything Must Go	p. 237
Not Unlike You	p. 247
Counting the Days	p. 255
Becoming Literature	p. 267
Marvelous Devising	p. 283
Out of Glacial Time	p. 295
Hi, Louise!	p. 303
Raking Leaves in New Madrid	p. 317
They Grow Everywhere	p. 329
The Elliptical Poets	p. 345
Without Evidence: Remarks on Reading Contemporary Poetry and on Reading about It	p. 357
Acknowledgments	p. 369
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