Modern Poetry
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Modern Poetry

  1. 154 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Modern Poetry

About this book

Diane Seuss's signature voiceā€”audacious in its honesty, virtuosic in its artistry, outsider in its attitudeā€”has become one of the most original in contemporary poetry. Her latest collection takes its title, Modern Poetry, from the first textbook Seuss encountered as a child and the first poetry course she took in college, as an enrapt but ill-equipped student, one who felt poetry was beyond her reach. Many of the poems make use of the forms and terms of musical and poetic craftā€”ballad, fugue, aria, refrain, codaā€”and contend with the works of writers overrepresented in textbooks and anthologies and those too often underrepresented. Seuss provides a moving account of her picaresque years and their uncertainties, and in the process, she enters the realm between Modernism and Romanticism, between romance and objectivity, with Keats as ghost, lover, and interlocutor. In poems of rangy curiosity, sharp humor, and illuminating self-scrutiny, Modern Poetry investigates our time's deep isolation and divisiveness and asks: What can poetry be now? Do poems still have the capacity to mean? 'It seems wrong / to curl now within the confines / of a poem,' Seuss writes. 'You can't hide / from what you made / inside what you made.' What she finds there, finally, is a surprising but unmistakable love.

Information

Publisher
Fitzcarraldo Editions
Year
2025
Topic
Literature
eBook ISBN
9781804271605
Subtopic
American Poetry
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. PRAISE
  2. TITLE PAGE
  3. DEDICATION
  4. CONTENTS
  5. EPIGRAPH
  6. Ā§
  7. LITTLE FUGUE STATE
  8. CURL
  9. BALLAD
  10. LITTLE SONG
  11. MODERN POETRY
  12. COLETTE
  13. MY EDUCATION
  14. JUKE
  15. POP SONG
  16. BALLAD FROM THE SOUNDHOLEĀ OF AN UNSTRUNG GUITAR
  17. Ā§
  18. COMMA
  19. MONODY
  20. VILLANELLE
  21. FOLK SONG
  22. BLUISH
  23. BALLAD IN SESTETS
  24. THRENODY
  25. CODA
  26. Ā§
  27. AN ARIA
  28. Ā§
  29. ALLEGORY
  30. Ā§
  31. WEEDS
  32. ANOTHER BALLAD
  33. LITTLE REFRAIN
  34. COWPUNK
  35. SIMILE
  36. PENETRALIUM
  37. Ā§
  38. POETRY
  39. Ā§
  40. BOBBY
  41. RHAPSODY
  42. LITTLE FUGUE WITH JEAN SEBERG AND TUPPERWARE
  43. THE PERSONAL
  44. UNTITLED
  45. THE OTHER
  46. BALLAD THAT ENDS WITH BITCH
  47. Ā§
  48. AGAINST POETRY
  49. Ā§
  50. LEGACY
  51. ROMANTIC POETRY
  52. HIGH ROMANCE
  53. LOVE LETTER
  54. GERTRUDE STEIN
  55. ROMANTIC POET
  56. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  57. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
  58. COPYRIGHT

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