148 Pages
by
Routledge
148 Pages
by
Routledge
148 Pages
by
Routledge
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Charles Simic and the Poetics of Uncertainty provides the first full account of the poetics of the former US Poet Laureate, who is one of the most popular and critically acclaimed English-language poets writing today. The book argues for uncertainty as the center of Simic’s poetics and addresses the ways that his poetry grows from and navigates various forms of uncertainty. Donovan McAbee... Read more
1. "Himself Alone": Charles Simic becomes an American poet 2. "A poem is a place": te spaces of Simic’s poems 3. Metaphysical suspicions: Simic’s agnostic theology 4. "A permanent disruption": the role of humor in Simic’s poetry; Conclusion: the political as personal: Simic’s poetry of survival
Biography
Donovan McAbee is Associate Professor of Religion and the Arts at Belmont University, USA
