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The Meaning of Poems: Selected Poems (as) Poetics
Paperback
Publisher Price: $22.00
ISBN13: 9781963908282
Publisher: Spuyten Duyvil
Published: Sep 15 2024
Pages: 164
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.35 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
James Berger takes up the question with a sly, ironic wit that interrogates the idea of poetics and subjects his own assumptions and biases to a ruthless and delightfully honest self-critique. Many poets will see their own agon reflected here. My project is to slog/ my mortality in the dried vein// of lyric, and to claim// at last my incapacity// as my own. Yet this is not a poetry of exhaustion, but of self-renewing vitality: Yeats' foul rag and bone shop or Manny Faber's termite art, restless, eating away at its own boundaries. Subversive and disarming, Berger charts his development as a poet with humor and panache. It makes for one hell of a ride.
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