Name: Poetry Makes Things Happen: Poems, Essays, Texts, Afterwords, Blurbs, Notes
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Author: Leftwich, Jim
ISBN: 9781938521690

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Poetry Makes Things Happen: Poems, Essays, Texts, Afterwords, Blurbs, Notes

Type

Physical Book

Author

Jim Leftwich

Publisher

Luna Bisonte Prods

Language

English

Pages

245

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

24.4 x 18.8 x 1.5 cm

Weight

0.57 kg.

ISBN13

9781938521690

Synopsis "Poetry Makes Things Happen: Poems, Essays, Texts, Afterwords, Blurbs, Notes "

Poetry.For Jim Leftwich, the boundary between poetry and criticism, or more accurately, between poetry and writing about poetry, is extremely porous. This book should make that very clear; in fact, here it is sometimes hard to tell whether a text is 'original poetry' or his writing 'about poetry.' Which suggests that the distinction may not be all that important. (Another such book is one he wrote focused on my own work, or using my work as a springboard, CONTAINERS PROJECTING MULTITUDES: EXPOSITIONS ON THE POETRY OF JOHN M. BENNETT, 2019.) This is perhaps an outgrowth of his practice of making 'hacks' of others' poetry and texts, which is in itself a means of entering into, and remaking aspects of, another's work, using a wide variety of processes ranging from the arbitrary and deliberate, to the improvisational and purely intuitive. What this does is to turn the process of writing about poetry on its head. Instead of applying a preordained critical method or theory to a text, Leftwich presents, as it were in 'real time, ' an account of what it was like, of what happened, when he read the text. We thus have a narration of a real experience of reading. For me, and for many of us in this new literary avant garde, this is vastly more interesting and useful than the use of a text to support or illustrate a particular literary (or other) ideology. Leftwich's work in this regard is unique, exciting, and represents real progress in the 'problem' of 'how to read poetry, ' and of how to write it as well.--John M. Benne

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