In Dark Again in Wonder: The Poetry of Rene Char and George Oppen
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| Rating | : | 4.62 (746 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0268022291 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 248 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-04-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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"lucid, wise, and utterly worthwhile" according to Marie Smith. I found this to be a compelling and beautifully written study that asks and clarifies questions that truly matter. Though about two remarkable poets, it is their participation in larger conversations of how to live, what to attend to in this world, and how to attend to it that made this book so welcome on the shelf, and for me, one to read and reread.
Bake'rs style is synthetic, magisterial, drawing on a capacious knowledge of literature and the history of ideas." —Kevin Hart, University of Virginia. Char fought in the Resistance in the '40s. Both responded decisively to the social upheavals of the 1930s and ‘40s. Both, in their mature work, developed a kind of poetry that is at once a love poetry, a meditative poetry, and a poetry of encounter.The concluding chapter of the book places the questions raised by Char’s and Oppen’s work in a larger context, tracing the cultural history that shapes our modern experience of inhabiting a tension between an historical and a metaphysical horizon of experience, or, as this appears in a different but related light, a tension between a sociologica
About the AuthorRobert Baker is associate professor of English at the University of Montana.
Robert Baker is associate professor of English at the University of Montana.