Unsung : new and selected poems

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Unsung : new and selected poems

Rod Mengham

Salt, 2001

2nd ed

  • : pbk

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内容説明

"Sculpture is a part of the space around it." This statement by Katarzyna Kobro reflects Mengham's sense of how he wants the poetic text to relate to the languages that surround it. He has a set of ongoing preoccupations which are catalyzed by pronounced occasions, private and public. Ideally each text would be both univocal and multivocal, expressive and typical; since Mengham relies on a lot on circumstance, there is a great deal of personal input into the poems, but this is not meant to contribute primarily to a representation of the self, more towards a presentation of work for the reader to do. What kind of work? Certain kinds of semantic and syntactical derangement which Mengham hopes has a signature without constituting mere routines. He tries to catch the material in a state that remembers what it was like just prior to organization. And then in the process of composition there is an attempt to control this prehistoric material with particular attention to overall movement, phrasing, consonance and figure (which is to say, idea-rhymes). The distance between starting out and finishing is most obvious in the prose poems where you can see the agenda, perhaps even a theme or set of themes, that the text essays, as well as the curve it enters as a rhythm and an acoustic repertoire and conceptual and visual variations take over. It is less obvious but actually more extreme in the other poems.

目次

Local History From `12 Minutes in a Firing Squad' From `Dear Balzac & all the little Balzacs' A Luminous Band or Track Beds & Scrapings The Big Wind Polyalbum From Polyalbum (uncollected) Glossy Matter Poem Glow-Worms Year Zero Marsyas Stolen Fires Unsung Neutrinos Nomenclature Dogs on Sticks Down in the Mouth Kobro 31/12/92 No Resolve The Dog Star Take a Bite The Boeotarchs Shall Hear of This From an Alley The Snake on the Road by the Canning Bridge Wish-Bones This Is A Warning Letter Prolegomena to the Echo Names in the Bark Prepare to Meet Your Date To the Soviet Embalmers 7/8/97 Two Continents as a Medium for Poetry Smitten The Stoa Another Name for the Cassiterides Allegory of Good Government I Couldn't Eat a Whole One Nostratic Lament Allegory of Bad Government Friend on the Rocks of the Shore of the Night Marriage to the Sea Concession to Perpetuity No. 166

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詳細情報

  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BA72940901
  • ISBN
    • 1876857129
  • 出版国コード
    uk
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    eng
  • 出版地
    Cambridge
  • ページ数/冊数
    123 p.
  • 大きさ
    22 cm
  • 分類
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