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Poetry's Touch

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Availability:In StockContributor:William WatersAudience:Young AdultPublish date:2003-10-10Pages:192
Language:EnglishPublisher:Cornell University PressISBN-13:9780801441202ISBN-10:080144120XUPC:9780801441202Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Poetry, Semiotics & Theory, EuropeanSize:9.56 x 5.96 x 0.73 inchesWeight:0.9105Product ID:SCAYE1B9VW

To whom does a poem speak? Do poems really communicate with those they address? Is reading poems like overhearing? Like intimate conversation? Like performing a script? William Waters pursues these questions by closely reading a selection of poems that say "you" to a human being: to the reader, to the beloved, or to the dead. In any account of reading lyric poetry, Waters argues, there will be places where the participant roles of speaker, intended hearer, and bystander melt together or away; these are moments of wonder.Looking both at poetry's "you" and at how readers encounter it, Waters asserts that poetic address shows literature pressing for a close relation with those into whose hands it may fall. What is at stake for us as readers and critics is our ability to acknowledge the claims made on us by the works of art with which we engage. In second-person poems, in a poem's touch, we may come to see why poetry matters to us, and how we, in turn, come to feel answerable to it. Poetry's Touch takes as a central thread the poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, a writer whose work is unusually self-conscious about poetic address. The book also draws examples from a gamut of European and American poems, ranging from archaic Greek inscriptions to Keats, Dickinson, and Ashbery.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Cornell University PressISBN-13:9780801441202ISBN-10:080144120XUPC:9780801441202Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Poetry, Semiotics & Theory, EuropeanSize:9.56 x 5.96 x 0.73 inchesWeight:0.9105Product ID:SCAYE1B9VW

William Waters is Associate Professor of German at Boston University.


Publisher: Cornell University Press

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