The Meaning of Poems: Selected Poems (as) Poetics

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' foul rag and bone shop or Manny Faber's termite art, restless, eating away at its own boundaries. Subversive and disarming, Berger charts his development as a poet with humor and panache. It makes for one hell of a ride.

Author: James Berger
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Spuyten Duyvil
Published: 09/15/2024
Pages: 164
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.35d
ISBN: 9781963908282