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Spatial Relations. Volume One: Essays, Reviews, Commentaries, and Chorography: Cross/Cultures, cartea 161

Autor John Kinsella
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 31 dec 2012
These volumes present John Kinsella’s uncollected critical writings and personal reflections from the early 1990s to the present. Included are extended pieces of memoir written in the Western Australian wheatbelt and the Cambridge fens, as well as acute essays and commentaries on the nature and genesis of personal and public poetics. Pivotal are a sense of place and how we write out of it; pastoral’s relevance to contemporary poetry; how we evaluate and critique (post)colonial creativity and intrusion into Indigenous spaces; and engaged analysis of activism and responsibility in poetry and literary discourse. The author is well-known for saying he is preeminently an “anarchist, vegan, pacifist” – not stock epithets, but the raison d’être behind his work.
The collection moves from overviews of contemporary Australian poetry to studies of such writers as Randolph Stow, Ouyang Yu, Charmaine Papertalk–Green, Lionel Fogarty, Les Murray, Peter Porter, Dorothy Hewett, Judith Wright, Alamgir Hashmi, Patrick Lane, Robert Sullivan, C.K. Stead, and J.H. Prynne, and on to numerous book reviews of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction, originally published in newspapers and journals from around the world.
There are also searching reflections on visual artists (Sidney Nolan, Karl Wiebke, Shaun Atkinson) and wide-ranging opinion pieces and editorials. In counterpoint are conversations with other writers (Rosanna Warren, Rod Mengham, Alvin Pang, and Tracy Ryan) and explorations of schooling, being struck by lightning, ‘international regionalism’, hybridity, and experimental poetry. This two-volume argosy has been brought together by scholar and editor Gordon Collier, who has allowed the original versions to speak with their unique informal–formal ductus.
Kinsella’s interest is in the ethics of space and how we use it. His considerations of the wheatbelt through Wagner and Dante (and rewritings of these), and, in Thoreauvian vein, his ‘place’ at Jam Tree Gully on the edge of Western Australia’s Avon Valley form a web of affirmation and anxiety: it is space he feels both part of and outside, em¬braced in its every magnitude but felt to be stolen land, whose restitution needs articulating in literature and in real time.
Beneath it all is a celebration of the natural world – every plant, animal, rock, sentinel peak, and grain of sand – and a commitment to an ecological poetics.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9789042036772
ISBN-10: 904203677X
Pagini: 573
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 x 32 mm
Greutate: 1.11 kg
Editura: Brill
Colecția Brill
Seria Cross/Cultures


Cuprins

Acknowledgements
Introduction
On Australian Poetry and Poets
Generalities
Florilegia
Longer Views on Individuals
Points of Contact
International
English poets
Poets in North America
Reviews & Short Pieces: Australiana
In the Wings
Onomastic Index

Notă biografică

John Kinsella‘s many books of poetry include the prize-winning Armour (2011) and Peripheral Light: Selected and New Poems (selected and introduced by Harold Bloom, 2003). He has published poetry, novels, short fiction, plays, and criticism. He is a Professorial Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia and a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge University.