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Author: Édouard Glissant
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780472066292
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A major work by this prominent Caribbean author and philosopher, available for the first time in English
Author: Constance M. Furey
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2017-06-05
Total Pages: 261
ISBN-13: 022643429X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →What is the relationship between our isolated and our social selves, between aloneness and interconnection? Constance M. Furey probes this question through a suggestive literary tradition: early Protestant poems in which a single speaker describes a solitary search for God. As Furey demonstrates, John Donne, George Herbert, Anne Bradstreet, and others describe inner lives that are surprisingly crowded, teeming with human as well as divine companions. The same early modern writers who bequeathed to us the modern distinction between self and society reveal here a different way of thinking about selfhood altogether. For them, she argues, the self is neither alone nor universally connected, but is forever interactive and dynamically constituted by specific relationships. By means of an analysis equally attentive to theological ideas, social conventions, and poetic form, Furey reveals how poets who understand introspection as a relational act, and poetry itself as a form ideally suited to crafting a relational self, offer us new ways of thinking about selfhood today—and a resource for reimagining both secular and religious ways of being in the world.
Author: Robin Jarvis
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1991-04-05
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 1349212644
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Published: 1982
Total Pages: 46
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Layli Long Soldier
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: 2017-03-07
Total Pages: 114
ISBN-13: 1555979610
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The astonishing, powerful debut by the winner of a 2016 Whiting Writers' Award WHEREAS her birth signaled the responsibility as mother to teach what it is to be Lakota therein the question: What did I know about being Lakota? Signaled panic, blood rush my embarrassment. What did I know of our language but pieces? Would I teach her to be pieces? Until a friend comforted, Don’t worry, you and your daughter will learn together. Today she stood sunlight on her shoulders lean and straight to share a song in Diné, her father’s language. To sing she motions simultaneously with her hands; I watch her be in multiple musics. —from “WHEREAS Statements” WHEREAS confronts the coercive language of the United States government in its responses, treaties, and apologies to Native American peoples and tribes, and reflects that language in its officiousness and duplicity back on its perpetrators. Through a virtuosic array of short lyrics, prose poems, longer narrative sequences, resolutions, and disclaimers, Layli Long Soldier has created a brilliantly innovative text to examine histories, landscapes, her own writing, and her predicament inside national affiliations. “I am,” she writes, “a citizen of the United States and an enrolled member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, meaning I am a citizen of the Oglala Lakota Nation—and in this dual citizenship I must work, I must eat, I must art, I must mother, I must friend, I must listen, I must observe, constantly I must live.” This strident, plaintive book introduces a major new voice in contemporary literature.
Author: Barbara Herrnstein Smith
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1968
Total Pages: 307
ISBN-13: 0226763439
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Explores the question: How do poems end? This work examines numerous individual poems and examples of common poetic forms in order to reveal the relationship between closure and the overall structure and integrity of a poem.
