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- Yes, There Will Be Singing
- Book
- 2014
- Published by: University of Michigan Press
- Series: Poets on Poetry
summary
Yes, There Will Be Singing brings together Marilyn Krysl’s essays on the origins of language and poetry, poetic form, the poetry of witness, and poetry’s collaboration with the healing arts. Beginning with pieces on her own origins as a poet, she branches into poetry’s profound spiritual and political possibilities, drawing on rich examples from poets such as Anna Akhmatova, W.S. Merwin, and Vénus Khoury-Ghata. Krysl concludes with a selection of stories of her nursing and humanitarian work, powerfully connecting poetic expression with a generous and compassionate worldview.
Table of Contents
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- I. Origins
- Dirt's Minion
- pp. 7-10
- Teaching Taste, Making Soul
- pp. 11-16
- Water Rites
- pp. 22-32
- II. The Sestina
- Ardor and the Sestina
- pp. 48-56
- III. Litany
- All Hail Litany: Three Variations
- pp. 65-72
- IV. Illustrious Forebears
- Akhmatova: The Leper's Rattle
- pp. 86-89
- V. Poetry as a Way of Witnessing
- The Poetry of Witness: Then, and Now
- pp. 95-100
- Ingrid Wendt: Nonviolent Woman Warrior
- pp. 116-122
- VI. Poetry and the Healing Arts
- Poetry and the Healing Arts: Collaboration
- pp. 125-130
- Violence and Dignity
- pp. 131-138
- Beautiful Trouble
- pp. 139-148
- Madurai: Temple Beggar
- pp. 149-155
- We Are So Vast
- pp. 156-160
- Two Motion Fast Happening God
- pp. 161-166
Additional Information
ISBN
9780472120567
Related ISBN(s)
9780472036028
MARC Record
OCLC
890248942
Pages
192
Launched on MUSE
2014-09-09
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2014