Difficult Ornaments: Florida and the Poets
Autor Ange Mlinkoen Limba Engleză Hardback – 24 dec 2024
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780197776551
ISBN-10: 0197776558
Pagini: 184
Dimensiuni: 147 x 218 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 0197776558
Pagini: 184
Dimensiuni: 147 x 218 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Recenzii
Difficult Ornaments brilliantly reveals how the lush Floridian landscape inspired six twentieth-century American poets. Subtly and discerningly, Mlinko examines the peacock character of the state and of poetry alike, in order to clarify the often-overlooked power of poetic ornament.
This attractively personal meditation on poetry and place, by one of the most subtle and discerning readers of poetry around, is actually a treatise on style--to be specific, a celebration of the extravagant, 'proliferal,' peacock style that Stevens and poets like Bishop and Merrill cultivated in the coral soil of a half-real, half-imagined Florida. In the process they created an unlikely American tradition that Ange Mlinko has defined and introduced us to here.
'The state with the prettiest name,' as Bishop dubbed Florida indelibly, is also a state of mind in which profusion and extravagance flourish, and it has found a proponent, midrashic and scholarly, in Ange Mlinko's commentary, equally ludic and intense. Like her poems, these essays are trellises for vines dense with blossoms, creating their own patterns by means of lightning transition, serendipity, resurrected etymologies, and other percipient or witty trouvailles--all rooted in rich, 'venereal soil,' in Stevens's term. The vines, the lines, the motifs of her poets interlace like rhymes in a mazy troubadour form, mazy and florabundant. At times one suspects the subject is not Floridian but American poetry itself.
This attractively personal meditation on poetry and place, by one of the most subtle and discerning readers of poetry around, is actually a treatise on style--to be specific, a celebration of the extravagant, 'proliferal,' peacock style that Stevens and poets like Bishop and Merrill cultivated in the coral soil of a half-real, half-imagined Florida. In the process they created an unlikely American tradition that Ange Mlinko has defined and introduced us to here.
'The state with the prettiest name,' as Bishop dubbed Florida indelibly, is also a state of mind in which profusion and extravagance flourish, and it has found a proponent, midrashic and scholarly, in Ange Mlinko's commentary, equally ludic and intense. Like her poems, these essays are trellises for vines dense with blossoms, creating their own patterns by means of lightning transition, serendipity, resurrected etymologies, and other percipient or witty trouvailles--all rooted in rich, 'venereal soil,' in Stevens's term. The vines, the lines, the motifs of her poets interlace like rhymes in a mazy troubadour form, mazy and florabundant. At times one suspects the subject is not Floridian but American poetry itself.
Notă biografică
Ange Mlinko is Professor of Creative Writing (Poetry) at the University of Florida. She is the former poetry editor of the Nation, and her work has appeared in Poetry, the New Yorker, the Paris Review, The London Review of Books, the New York Review of Books, and many other journals. She has won the Randall Jarrell Award in Criticism, the Frederick Bock Prize, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She is currently the poetry editor of the University of Florida's literary journal, Subtropics.