The Meaning of Poems: Selected Poems (as) Poetics

by James Berger

James Berger takes up the question with a sly, ironic wit that interrogates the idea of poetics and subjects his own assumptions and biases to a ruthless and delightfully honest self-critique. Many poets will see their own agon reflected here. "My project is to slog/ my mortality in the dried vein// of lyric, and to claim// at last my incapacity// as my own." Yet this is not a poetry of exhaustion, but of self-renewing vitality: Yeats'...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1963908287
• ISBN13: 9781963908282
• Release Date: September 2024
• Publisher: Spuyten Duyvil
• Length: 164 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 7.0" x 10.0"