Jorie Graham : essays on the poetry
Jorie Graham is one of the most important American poets now writing. This first book-length study brings together thirteen previously published essays and review essays by many of the major critics currently interested in her work and five new essays commissioned for this volume. Commenting on each of Graham's eight collections, these essays encompass the range of critical thought that her work has attracted, both surveying it broadly and engaging closely with individual poems. These essays identify three broad concerns that run through each of her strikingly different volumes of poems: the movement of the mind in action, the role of the body in experiencing the world, and the pressures of material conditions on mind and body alike. Gardner both shows how Graham is being read at the moment and charts new areas of investigation likely to dominate thinking about her over the next decade. This collection is sure to become the crucial first step for all future work on Graham and on American poetry of the last two decades. -- From publisher's description
Print Book, English, 2005
University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, Wis., 2005
Criticism, interpretation, etc
viii, 305 pages ; 24 cm.
9780299203207, 9780299203245, 0299203204, 0299203247
55600818
Jorie Graham: art and erosion (1992) / Bonnie Costello
From Countering culture: review of Materialism (1994) / Elisabeth Frost
From Postlyrically yours: review of Materialism (1994) / Calvin Bedient
Jorie Graham: the moment of excess (1995) / Helen Vendler
Iconoclasm in the poetry of Jorie Graham (1995) / Anne Shifrer
Listening for a divine word: review of The errancy (1997) / Forrest Gander
Jorie Graham's big hunger (1997) / James Longenbach
From Exquisite disjunctions, exquisite arrangements: Jorie Graham's "strangeneses of strategy" (1998) / Brian Henry
From Jorie Graham's Incandescence (1999) / Thomas Gardner
From Breaking and making: review of Swarm (2000) / Stephen Yenser
To feel an idea: review of Swarm (2001) / Joanna Klink
Indigo, cyanine, beryl: review of Never (2003) / Helen Vendler
Jorie Graham's ... s (2003) / Thomas J. Otten
The place of Jorie Graham / James Longenbach
Jorie Graham listening / Willard Spiegelman
The speaking subject in/me: gender and ethical subjectivity in the poetry of Jorie Graham / Cynthia Hogue
"Tell them no": Jorie Graham's poems of adolescence / Stephen Burt
Toward a Jorie Graham lexicon / Calvin Bedient