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- Hewing to Experience: Essays and Reviews on Recent American Poetry and Poetics, Nature and Culture
- Book
- 1989
- Published by: University of Iowa Press
summary
Hewing to Experience charts Sherman Paul's course of coming to know William Carlos Williams, Hart Crane, Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, and Gary Snyder and the critical scholarship devoted to them as it provides an assessment of recent criticism. The initial section, on criticism and poetry, sets out many of the insistences that give this valuable collection of essays and reviews its coherence. Considered are criticism, poetics, poetry and old age, ethnopoetics, the gift exchange of imagination, and the recent and controversial enterprise of canon formation.
The final section of Hewing to Experience provides an important, meditative rereading of the work of Barry Lopez that convincingly places ecological writing within the large revisionist project of avant-garde poetry. Of particular note, too, is the full commentary on the Olson-Creeley correspondence.
Throughout, Paul's humane enthusiasm is evident. Hewing to Experience merits the readership of all those who are interested in contemporary poetry and concerned with the ongoing criticism of major poets and with critical practice.
Table of Contents
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- Introduction
- pp. xi-xvii
- Open(ing) Criticism
- pp. 3-14
- Poetry and Old Age
- pp. 32-36
- Serial Poems from Canada
- pp. 37-48
- Eros and Logos
- pp. 53-57
- Ethnopoetics: An "Other" Tradition
- pp. 58-66
- Canon-Making
- pp. 67-72
- Nature and Poetry
- pp. 73-75
- Emerson's Poetic Legacy
- pp. 79-84
- Stieglitz, Williams, and Cubism
- pp. 108-110
- Williams' Background
- pp. 111-114
- The Later Poems
- pp. 115-117
- The Embodiment of Knowledge
- pp. 118-121
- The Early Poems
- pp. 122-124
- Coles on Williams
- p. 125
- Whittemore's Biography
- pp. 126-128
- Williams and the Other Arts
- pp. 129-133
- A Revisionist Study
- pp. 134-137
- Romantic Idealist?
- pp. 138-141
- A Modern Master
- pp. 145-149
- R. W. B. Lewis on Crane
- pp. 153-157
- Crane's Prosody
- pp. 158-161
- An Inside Biography
- pp. 162-169
- A Personal Biography
- pp. 170-173
- Family Letters
- pp. 174-175
- Crane and Winters
- pp. 176-178
- Maximus: Volume 3 or Books VII and After
- pp. 181-196
- Olson and Pound
- pp. 197-201
- Dancing the Man
- pp. 202-206
- Birds, Landscape, Place, Cosmicity
- pp. 207-223
- A Letter on Olson and Burke
- pp. 224-228
- An Olson Primer
- pp. 229-232
- Understanding Creeley
- pp. 250-253
- Gripping~ Pushing~ Moving
- pp. 257-264
- (The) Going(s) On
- pp. 292-302
- This to Keep (You) On
- pp. 303-311
- Noble and Simple
- pp. 315-321
- Minds Like Compost
- pp. 322-334
- Snyder's Politics
- pp. 335-339
- Making the Turn:Rereading Barry Lopez
- pp. 343-385
- Previous Publications
- pp. 387-389
Additional Information
ISBN
9781587291807
Related ISBN(s)
9780877452478
DOI
MARC Record
OCLC
44964845
Pages
408
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
1989