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Forms of a World : Contemporary Poetry and the Making of Globalization by Walt Hunter (2019, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherFordham University Press
ISBN-10082328221X
ISBN-139780823282210
eBay Product ID (ePID)9038792805
Product Key Features
Number of Pages192 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameForms of a World : Contemporary Poetry and the Making of Globalization
SubjectHuman Geography, Modern / 21st Century, Globalization
Publication Year2019
TypeTextbook
AuthorWalt Hunter
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Political Science, Social Science
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.5 in
Item Weight11.3 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width7.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2018-010818
Dewey Edition23
Reviews...Hunter's Forms of a World builds his reading of largely contemporary poetry upon the synthesis of economistic Marxism and world-systems theory... Adding a welcome attention to prosody and genre to this body of work, Hunter has authored a politically committed and much-needed defense of poetry in an era defined by neoliberal claims to the "global commons.", This smart, engaging, and timely book rethinks periodization according to the rhythms of capitalism. Finely written, with many moments of startling beauty and poetic nuance, Forms of a World offers a crucial reassessment of poetry's importance today, ... Forms of a World establishes Hunter alongside Jahan Ramazani, Omaar Hena, Robert Stilling, Nathan Suhr- Sytsma, and Justin Quinn... as experts on specifically international Anglophone poetic goings-on, who try to contribute to the study of globalization, within and outside literary fields. ---Stephanie Burt, Critical Inquiry, In a field dominated by the novel, we need smart critics like Walt Hunter to reveal poetry's very different engagements with politics and economics. From territorial dispossession to environmental devastation, Hunter shows the agonies of globalization prompting subtle and inventive poetic responses., ...Hunter's Forms of a World remains a major achievement in contemporary criticism: one that advances beyond the national boundaries of American literature to address just how far twenty-first century poetry in the US matters to the planet and its global challenges to come., This smart, engaging, and timely book rethinks periodization according to the rhythms of capitalism. Finely written, with many moments of startling beauty and poetic nuance, Forms of a World offers a crucial reassessment of poetry's importance today., Walt Hunter reads a wide range of representative texts, showing an impressive command of many cultural traditions and critical approaches. ---Jeff Westover, American Literature, In a field dominated by the novel, we need smart critics like Walt Hunter to explore and reveal poetry's very different engagements with politics and economics. In Hunter's insightful readings, we see contemporary U.S., British, Ghanaian, Iraqi, Irish, Jamaican, and Kashmiri poets turning to longstanding formal traditions--including the ode, the ghazal, and the lyric apostrophe--in order to rethink and remake poetry for our own calamitous moment. From territorial dispossession to denials of citizenship and from financial precarity to environmental devastation, Hunter shows the agonies of globalization emerging to prompt subtle and inventive poetic responses., Forms of a World is a necessary and important addition to monographs engaging with global, post-colonial, and comparative poetics, such as those written by Jahan Ramazani, Nathan Suhr-Sytsma, Jacob Edmond, and Omaar Hena. Readers of these texts and authors will see that this book is essential for anyone studying the sociopolitical dynamics of global poetry., This smart, engaging, and timely book sets aside old divides like modern/postmodern in order to think periodizing according to the rhythms of capitalism. Finely written, with many moments of startling beauty and poetic nuance, Forms of a World offers a crucial reassessment of poetry's importance in the twenty-first century. ---Christopher Nealon, Johns Hopkins University, [Hunter's] synthesis between globalization studies and poetry criticism proves mutually beneficial: as Forms of a World makes clear, an understanding of global capitalism makes poetic innovations of the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries newly legible., This smart, engaging, and timely book sets aside old divides like modern/postmodern in order to think periodizing according to the rhythms of capitalism. Finely written, with many moments of startling beauty and poetic nuance, Forms of a World offers a crucial reassessment of poetry's importance in the twenty-first century., This is a book that is keenly aware of the breadth and depth of contemporary poetry, the global conditions that create it, and the shifting terrain of contemporary poetry criticism... a timely and thought-provoking book that will be of interest to scholars of poetry and poets themselves, as well as students and academics looking to navigate 21st century literature through adjacent fields touching on politics, economics, social justice, and the climate crisis., In a field dominated by the novel, we need smart critics like Walt Hunter to explore and reveal poetry's very different engagements with politics and economics. In Hunter's insightful readings, we see contemporary U.S., British, Ghanaian, Iraqi, Irish, Jamaican, and Kashmiri poets turning to longstanding formal traditions--including the ode, the ghazal, and the lyric apostrophe--in order to rethink and remake poetry for our own calamitous moment. From territorial dispossession to denials of citizenship and from financial precarity to environmental devastation, Hunter shows the agonies of globalization emerging to prompt subtle and inventive poetic responses. ---Caroline Levine, Cornell University, Forms of a World... serves as a model for what should become, for conscientious readers of contemporary poetry, a collective undertaking to remake the field.
Dewey Decimal809/.933553
Table Of ContentIntroduction 1 1. Stolen Landscapes: The Investments of the Ode and the Politics of Land 19 2. Let Us Go: Lyric and the Transit of Citizenship 44 3. The Crowd to Come: Poetic Exhortations from Brooklyn to Kashmir 65 4. The No-Prospect Poem: Poetic Views of the Anthropocene 90 Coda 119 Acknowledgments 129 Notes 133 Bibliography 165 Index 183
SynopsisWhat happens when we think of poetry as a global literary form, while also thinking the global in poetic terms? Forms of a World shows how the innovations of contemporary poetics have been forged through the transformations of globalization across five decades. Sensing the changes wrought by neoliberalism before they are made fully present, poets from around the world have creatively intervened in global processes by remaking poetry's formal repertoire. In experimental reinventions of the ballad, the prospect poem, and the ode, Hunter excavates a new, globalized interpretation of the ethical and political relevance of forms. Forms of a World contends that poetry's role is not only to make visible thematically the violence of global dispossessions, but to renew performatively the missing conditions for intervening within these processes. Poetic acts--the rhetoric of possessing, belonging, exhorting, and prospecting--address contemporary conditions that render social life ever more precarious. Examining an eclectic group of Anglophone poets, from Seamus Heaney and Claudia Rankine to Natasha Trethewey and Kofi Awoonor, Hunter elaborates the range of ways that contemporary poets exhort us to imagine forms of social life and enable political intervention unique to but beyond the horizon of the contemporary global situation., Forms of a World argues that poetic innovations of contemporary Anglophone poetry shape and are shaped by global forces. The poets in this book sense these conditions before they are made fully present and offer various responses to global transformation., What happens when we think of poetry as a global literary form, while also thinking the global in poetic terms? F orms of a World shows how the innovations of contemporary poetics have been forged against a backdrop of globalization. Creatively intervening against the changes wrought by neoliberalism before they are made fully present, contemporary poets have remade the formal repertoire. In experimental reinventions of the ballad, the prospect poem, and the ode, Hunter excavates a new, globalized interpretation of the ethical and political relevance of forms.
LC Classification NumberPN56.G55H86 2019
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