TY  - GEN
T1  - Ecstatic émigré : an ethics of practice
T2  - Poets on poetry.
A1  - Keelan, Claudia, 1959-
LA  - English
PP  - Ann Arbor
PB  - University of Michigan Press
YR  - 2018
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_on1023386762
AB  - "Most think of an emigré as one who leaves her native land to find home in another. Claudia Keelan, in essays both personal and critical, enlists poetic company for her journey, engaging both canonical and common figures, from Gertrude Stein to a prophetic Las Vegas cab driver named Caesar. Mapping her own peripatetic evolution in poetry and her nomadic life, she also engages with Christian and Buddhist doctrines on the virtues of dispossession. Ecstatic Émigré pays homage to poets from Thoreau and Whitman to Alice Notley, all of whom share a commitment to living and writing in the moment. Keelan asks the same questions about the growth of flowers or the meaning of bioluminescence as she does about the poetics of John Cage or George Oppen. Her originality is grounded by the ways in which she connects poetic principles with the spiritual concepts of via negativa demonstrated both in St. John of the Cross and Mahayana Buddhism. In addition, her essays demonstrate an activist spirit and share a commitment to the passive resistance demonstrated in Martin Luther King, Jr.'s concept of the "beloved community" and philosopher Simone Weil's dedication to "exile.""--
OP  - 168
CN  - PS3561.E3387 A6 2018
SN  - 9780472123827
SN  - 0472123823
SN  - 9780472037193
SN  - 0472037196
KW  - Poetics.
KW  - Poetry : Authorship.
KW  - American poetry : History and criticism.
KW  - Poétique.
KW  - Poésie : Art d'écrire.
KW  - Poésie américaine : Histoire et critique.
KW  - POETRY : General.
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM : Poetry.
KW  - American essays
KW  - Poetry
KW  - American poetry
KW  - Poetics
KW  - Poetry : Authorship
KW  - 2000-2099
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
ER  -