No Image There and the Gaze Remains: The Visual in the Work of Jorie Graham (Studies in Major Literary Authors) ISBN-13: 9780415867207

ISBN-13: 9780415867207

Binding: Paperback

Author: Karaguezian, Catherine

Details: To date, no book-length study of the work of poet Jorie Graham has been published. Graham now holds the prestigious Boylston Professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard University; recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and a Pulitzer Prize, Graham has established herself as one of the most important poets of her generation. This book addresses the connection between Grahams work and the legacy of American Modernism, arguing that her recurring interest in the visible world and how best to represent it in her poetry can be seen as a continuation of the work of Eliot and Stevens. For Graham, the visible world is a means of approaching the ineffable, or the divine. The poets approach to the ineffable in her work is conflated at times with the relationship between the self and the other: maintaining the integrity of both and accurately representing the truth of what she sees become a moral project for the poet, aligning her work with that of the Moderns. The book addresses Grahams entire body of work, now nine books of poetry, and interprets her poetic preoccupation with visuality through the lens of psychoanalytic criticism.

Release Date: 16-01-2014

Package Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.0 x 0.3 inches

Languages: English

Edition: 1

Number Of Pages: 222