Disclosed Poetics: Beyond Landscape and Lyricism PDF
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DISCLOSED POETICS ANGELAKIHUMANITIES editors Charlie Blake Pelagia Goulimari Timothy S.Murphy Robert Smith general editor Gerard Greenway Angelaki Humanities publishes works which address and probe broad and compelling issues in the theoretical humanities. The series favours path- breaking thought, promotes unjustly neglected figures, and grapples with established concerns. It believes in the possibility of blending, without compromise, the rigorous, the well-crafted, and the inventive. The series seeks to host ambitious writing from around the world. Angelaki Humanities is the associated book series of angelaki – journal of the theoretical humanities. Already published The question of literature: the place of the literary in contemporary theory Elizabeth Beaumont Bissell Postmodernism. What moment? Pelagia Goulimari (ed.) Absolutely postcolonial: writing between the singular and the specific Peter Hallward Late modernist poetics: from Pound to Prynne Anthony Mellors The new Bergson John Mullarkey (ed.) Subversive Spinoza: (un)contemporary variations Timothy S. Murphy (ed.) ANGELAKIHUMANITIES DISCLOSED POETICS Beyond landscape and lyricism John Kinsella Manchester University Press Manchester and New York distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave Copyright © John Kinsella 2007 The right of John Kinsella to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. Published byManchester University Press Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9NR, UK andRoom 400, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010, USA www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010, USA Distributed exclusively in Canada by UBC Press, University of British Columbia, 2029 West Mall, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z2 British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data applied for ISBN 978 0 7190 7558 2 hardback First published 2007 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 09 08 07 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Typeset by Action Publishing Technology Ltd, Gloucester Printed in Great Britain by CPI, Bath CONTENTS List of illustrations pagevii Acknowledgements ix Preface xi IPastoral, landscape, place ... 1 Definitions of pastoral? 1 Can there be a radical ‘western’ pastoral? 4 Parrotology (on the necessity of parrots in poetry) 16 Landscape poetry? 30 The dark side of the beach: undisclosed poetics 36 IISpatial lyricism 47 A new lyricism: some early thoughts on linguistic disobedience 47 Olivetti Lettera 32 74 Distortions – on questioning the primacy of the accented syllable: notes on alternative spatialities for poetic rhythm 78 Line breaks and back-draft: not a defence of a poem 93 Line breaks coda 101 The search for the new idea, the unique? Against poetics? 102 On Graphology 110 IIIManifestoes 113 Anthologising the nation 113 Notes towards netdeath and the loss of page style: working ‘off the page’? 119 Consensus 124 The group, linguistic innovation, and international regionalism: prelude to the preparation of a group manifesto 128 v contents Intensivism 137 Hyperpoetics and the curvature of subsets 140 Treatise on rooms and windows 144 IVAgeing, loss, recidivism ... 161 Domine, refugium ... 161 Graphol-age-ia poetica: ageing as confrontation or avoidance of death 168 A loss of poetics 183 Poetics recidivous and the de-poetics of lightning, herbicides, and pesticides 199 Afterword to The New Arcadia 221 V Appendices 226 From Marcus Clarke’s ‘Preface’ to the Poemsof Adam Lindsay Gordon, 1880/1893 226 Windows 228 Imitation Spatialogue (Sublime) 230 Letter from Graham Nerlich 234 Bibliography 240 vi ILLUSTRATIONS 1 North Window 1 page158 2 North Window 2 158 3 North Window 3 158 4 South Window 158 All photographs taken by John Kinsella. vii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I’d like to thank the many journals and conferences that have supported sections of this work in various drafts. Special thanks are due to Andrew Taylor, Gerard Greenway and my partner, Tracy (Ryan) Kinsella. Also, I would like to extend special thanks to Dennis Haskell, Glen Phillips, Marjorie Perloff, Brian Worsfold and Maria Vidal at the English Department at the University of Lleida; the editors and readers at Angelaki, Artful Dodge, The Australian Book Review, Colorado Review, The Commonwealth Review, Island Magazine, The Literary Review, Meanjin, Poetry Review, Salzburg Review, Southerly; Kenyon College in Ohio, Churchill College at Cambridge University, the Landscape and Language Centre at Edith Cowan University; Bill Louden for being generally interested and supportive; Manchester University Press, Matthew Frost and the press’s readers; and many others. I would also like to acknowledge and thank those I have chatted with about various issues discussed in this book. ix
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