{"product_id":"radical-affections-essays-on-the-poetics-of-outside-paperback-softback-9780817356217","title":"Radical Affections; Essays on the Poetics of Outside (Paperback \/ softback) 9780817356217","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eRadical Affections\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eEssays on the Poetics of Outside\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMiriam Nichols (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780817356217\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 18 January 2011\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e368 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.6 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.595 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e“Nichols’s book presents the ‘new American’ poetry as ‘a living counter tradition’ that was too quickly dismissed as utopian, naive, or simply out of touch during the ‘theory decades’ of the 1980s and 1990s. . . . The book’s subtitle refers to the dual condition of embodiment and ‘emplacedness’ that roots an individual in that ‘something larger,’ and Nichols lays out the ways in which these poets track ‘the cartography of the outside’ and enact models of experience that engage fully with ‘the practice of outside.’ The chapters on Olson and Duncan are especially strong, but Nichols sustains a sophisticated argument with surprising engagement throughout the book. Highly recommended.”--\u003cem\u003eCHOICE\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIn 1950 the poet Charles Olson published his influential essay “Projective Verse” in which he proposed a poetry of “open field” composition—to replace traditional closed poetic forms with improvised forms that would reflect exactly the content of the poem.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe poets and poetry that have followed in the wake of the “projectivist” movement—the Black Mountain group, the New York School, the San Francisco Renaissance, and the Language poets—have since been studied at length. But more often than not they have been studied through the lens of continental theory with the effect that these highly propositional, pragmatic, and adaptable forms of verse were interpreted in very cramped, polemical ways.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eRadical Affections\u003c\/em\u003e is a study of six poets central to the New American poetry—Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Jack Spicer, Robin Blaser, and Susan Howe—with an eye both toward challenging the theoretical lenses through which they have been viewed and to opening up this counter tradition to contemporary practice.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMiriam Nichols highlights many of the impulses original to the thinking and methods of each poet: appeals to perceptual experience, spontaneity, renewed relationships with nature, engaging the felt world—what Nichols terms a “poetics of outside”—focusing squarely on experiences beyond the self-regarding self. As Nichols states, these poets may well “represent the last moment in recent cultural history when a serious poet could write from perception or pursue a visionary poetics without irony or quotation marks and expect serious intellectual attention.”\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"The University of Alabama Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52520894202136,"sku":"9780817356217","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/radical-affections-essays-on-the-poetics-of-outside-paperback-softback-9780817356217","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}