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“In this wonderful collection of essays, Mark Jarman explores with wit and passion the practice of poetryof making it, of reading it, of living it. In his vivid analyses of works by Brooks, Boisseau, Donne, Herbert, Rukeyser and Twichell, among others, he explores how the poems and their authors negotiate time and mortality, faith and devotion. He also offers an intimate examination of his own gorgeous work and how it comes onto the page. A delight for readers and writers of poetry.”Margot Livesey, author of The Flight of Gemma Hardy and Mercury
The essays in Dailiness are about how a poet makes a poem. For Mark Jarman a poem results from a deliberate and conscious act. He is especially interested in the way human consciousness connects devotional prayer to poetry. In these essays he considers poems written millennia apartfrom Gilgamesh to George Herbert’s work, from the poems of Robert Frost to those of Seamus Heaney, to his own recently-written poems and those of his contemporaries. As the poems celebrate the work of daily creation, they possess a religious aspect. In Dailiness Jarman sheds light on how poems accomplish this work.
The essays in Dailiness are about how a poet makes a poem. For Mark Jarman a poem results from a deliberate and conscious act. He is especially interested in the way human consciousness connects devotional prayer to poetry. In these essays he considers poems written millennia apartfrom Gilgamesh to George Herbert’s work, from the poems of Robert Frost to those of Seamus Heaney, to his own recently-written poems and those of his contemporaries. As the poems celebrate the work of daily creation, they possess a religious aspect. In Dailiness Jarman sheds light on how poems accomplish this work.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781589881419 |
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Publisher: | Dry, Paul Books, Incorporated |
Publication date: | 02/18/2020 |
Pages: | 212 |
Sales rank: | 789,551 |
Product dimensions: | 5.40(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.50(d) |
About the Author
Mark Jarman is the author of eleven books of poetry. The Heronry is his most recent. He has also published two books of essays and reviews, won awards for his poetry, and received a Guggenheim Fellowship. He is Centennial Professor of English at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN.
Table of Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTSPreface: The Poetry of Daily Life
When the Light Came On: The Epic Gilgamesh
To Make the Final Unity: Metaphor’s Matter and Spirit
The Story of a Feeling: Poetry’s Passionate Repetition
American Devotions
Writing as a Daily Practice
Dailiness
Writing for God: The Life and Work of George Herbert
You Are Not Finished: Seamus Heaney’s Translation of the Aeneid, Book VI
Becoming and Going: Soul and Self in Four Poems
“Something Like That”: A Pronoun’s Life in Poetry
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