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Difficult Ornaments - Ange Mlinko

Difficult Ornaments

Florida and the Poets

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Buch | Hardcover
184 Seiten
2024
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-777655-1 (ISBN)
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This book draws on the works and lives of six poets, illustrating how the state of Florida inspired twentieth-century poets to new subject matter and forms, expanding and deepening the American experiment in English-language poetry.
This is a book about the works that six twentieth-century American poets created in and about the state of Florida--or, in one case, refused to create. Those poets who nourished their muse on Florida's landscape, history, and myths in turn helped perpetuate those myths: they keep an idea of Florida alive in the cultural imagination and in the language. They were not regional poets, because they did not live here permanently. But they do contribute to a psychogeography: theirs is a Florida that one can access from anywhere in the world through the pages of their books.

It so happens that these poets compose a chain of personal friendship and influence: Marianne Moore was friendly with Wallace Stevens, Elizabeth Bishop was friendly with Moore, James Merrill was friendly with Bishop, and socialized frequently with Harry Mathews when both had houses in Key West. Only Riding, who rose to prominence in the 1920s, gave up poetry around 1941, and moved to Wabasso in 1943 to live an isolated existence, stands apart. And yet there are correspondences to be drawn between her work and Merrill's, for instance.

The word "ornament" is used by both biologists and literary critics to describe the extras of beauty; but whether it is the encumbrance of a peacock's tail or the profusion of metaphor, ornaments are also seen as "difficult." What is it about "difficult ornaments" that make poems surprising, distinctive, and enduring? And does a proximity to the tropics-nature's own laboratory-compel poets to reach for invention and experiment? Does Florida contribute to an "evolution" of poetics? That's what this book explores.

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.

Preface
1: Introduction: Biological Ornament, Difficult Ornament
2: Wallace Stevens: Green Cocoanut Ice Cream
3: Marianne Moore: Piracy and Unicorn Horns
4: Elizabeth Bishop: A Queer Antique Musical Instrument Floating in the Sea
5: James Merrill: Silver Springs and Manatee Kisses
6: Harry Mathews: Cool Gales
7: Epilogue: Laura (Riding) Jackson

Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 147 x 218 mm
Gewicht 318 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10 0-19-777655-8 / 0197776558
ISBN-13 978-0-19-777655-1 / 9780197776551
Zustand Neuware
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