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Ecstatic émigré : an ethics of practice /

"Most think of an emigré as one who leaves her native land to find home in another. Claudia Keelan, in essays both personal and critical, enlists poetic company for her journey, engaging both canonical and common figures, from Gertrude Stein to a prophetic Las Vegas cab driver named Caesar. Ma...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Keelan, Claudia, 1959- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2018]
Colección:Poets on poetry.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue: reading and writing spiritual utility
  • Preliminaries
  • Apology
  • A concrete memoir
  • From Without sovereignty
  • "It might have begun differently"
  • Revising the parade : against the poetry of witness
  • Reclaiming paradise
  • A hinge-history : Robinson Jeffers and Brenda Hillman
  • A garden is a frame structure
  • From Erasing names, multiplying alliances (Salt Lake City via Memphis via Las Vegas)
  • Snow in America (Boston)
  • Nearing cradle
  • Native stranger
  • Lessons of the whirlwind
  • The citizen stranger : an ethics of definition
  • The instant
  • Interview for The Range of the Possible, conducted by Tod Marshall (The Secularist and Utopic)
  • Interview for Barrow Street, conducted by Derek Pollard (Utopic and The Devotion Field)
  • The poet on the poem : For My Lost Original : Elegy Is a Seeking in "Everybody's Autobiography" (Missing Her)
  • Interview for Omnidawn Press, conducted by Rusty Morrison (Truth of My Songs : Poems of the Trobairitz)
  • Poetics statement for Poetry Society of America, "In their own words" (O, Heart)
  • Interview with Thomas Barkman for Barrow Street (O, Heart).