All things poetic and all things verse.
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Seo-Young Chu deposited I, Discomfort Woman: A Fugue in F Minor in the group
Poetics and Poetry on Humanities Commons 2 weeks, 3 days agoThis is a poem about fire.
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Carlos A. Pittella deposited Tradições, Transcrições, Traduções: Por um Entendimento Rizomático do Fausto Pessoano in the group
Poetics and Poetry on Humanities Commons 2 weeks, 3 days agoThis article invites the reading of Fernando Pessoa’s Fausto as a rhizomatic work, via three different critical lenses that lead to plurality: Traditions, Transcriptions, and Translations. Regarding different Faustian traditions, instead of seeing Pessoa’s Fausto merely as a competition with Goethe (as proposed by Eduardo Lourenço in his pref…[Read more]
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Elizabeth B. Davis deposited Iglesia, mar y Casa Real: Imaginario de la odisea en la épica del Siglo de Oro in the group
Poetics and Poetry on Humanities Commons 1 month, 1 week agoIn this book chapter, Dr. Davis examines the depiction of a dissimulated desire for material improvement (mejora) as it is expressed in the epic poetry of imperial Spain, particularly in Alonso de Ercilla’s La Araucana. She shows that within the aristocratic context of the times, the desire for personal betterment or “mejora” is always contingent…[Read more]
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Elizabeth B. Davis deposited La promesa del náufrago: el motivo marinero del ex-voto, de Garcilaso a Quevedo in the group
Poetics and Poetry on Humanities Commons 1 month, 1 week agoThe nautical motif of the ex-voto (votive offering) is a lyric genre that reflects poetically the possible experience of a shipwreck survivor. Paradoxically, many of the poets who evoke the perils of sea travel never left Spain or, at most, sailed only the waters of the Mediterranean. Their writing of the sea remained consistently codified in…[Read more]
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Elizabeth B. Davis deposited Un soneto de Quevedo al nacimiento de Cristo: ¿ortodoxo o astrológico? in the group
Poetics and Poetry on Humanities Commons 1 month, 2 weeks agoIn this early article, written in the wake of the publication of Alessandro Martinengo’s _La astrología en la obra de Quevedo_ (Madrid: Alhambra, 1983), Dr. Davis focuses on the astrological tropes in a Quevedo sonnet on the nativity of Christ to see whether this poetic text can shed additional light on the poet’s documented penchant for…[Read more]
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Elizabeth B. Davis deposited Conquistas de las Indias de Dios: Early Poetic Appropriations of the Indies by the Spanish Renaissance in the group
Poetics and Poetry on Humanities Commons 1 month, 2 weeks agoProfessor Davis’s early article on appropriations of the Indies by Spanish poets who remained in Spain invites us to contemplate a body of poetry that plays the idea of American treasures against the value of true, spiritual riches.
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Elizabeth B. Davis deposited Hagiographic Jest in Quevedo: Tradition and Departure in the group
Poetics and Poetry on Humanities Commons 1 month, 2 weeks agoSeveral of Francisco de Quevedo’s hagiographic poems are puzzling because of their irreverent tone. Edward M. Wilson and Jose Manuel Blecua both noted that “la relacion entre las dos caras de un Quevedo es cuestión difícil y delicada para los modernos;” indeed, the writer’s particular blend of “las burlas con las veras” has attracted attention s…[Read more]
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Elizabeth B. Davis deposited Quevedo and the Rending of the Rocks in the group
Poetics and Poetry on Humanities Commons 1 month, 2 weeks agoThis essay analyzes the work of the poetic function as defined by Roman Jakobson in poems by Francisco de Quevedo that concern themselves with the trope of the rending of the rocks at the moment of Christ’s death on the cross, and in other poetic texts of Quevedo.
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Carlos A. Pittella deposited ‘We’ the people—Collective lyric self in twenty-first-century poetry in the group
Poetics and Poetry on Humanities Commons 1 month, 4 weeks agoQuestions of positionality permeate 21st-century poetics—and seem to come to a head around the intentional inclusion/exclusion of the reader in the speaker’s pronoun of choice, especially when the pronoun in question is “we.” This essay contrasts the fragmented lyric self of modernism with current approaches to a lyric “we” and puts three conte…[Read more]
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Stephe Harrop deposited No Air Left in Your Lungs: Breathing with Kae Tempest’s The Book of Traps and Lessons in the group
Poetics and Poetry on Humanities Commons 6 months, 3 weeks agoIt is May 2020. I am watching Kae Tempest perform Hold Your Own online. Tempest’s vocal performances are always rich in meaningful detail; from the rising semi-sung sound that embodies all the dreams and potentials of a fallible humanity to the throaty fall that
edges and softens our collapse into foolishness and self-defeat. Slipping between s…[Read more] -
Maurizio Brancaleoni deposited Thomas Wolfe’s Passage to England: A Ghostly Account of a Real Voyage in the group
Poetics and Poetry on Humanities Commons 7 months agoA series of sketches written in 1924 during an ocean crossing from New York to Tilbury, “Passage to England” was published only in 1998 by the Thomas Wolfe Society and is hardly Wolfe’s most popular or most accomplished work. Nonetheless I always felt that Passage to England had something unique and idiosyncratic and that despite a certain a…[Read more]
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Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited Sobre la espiritualidad del ‘buen amor’ de Juan Ruiz, Arcipreste de Hita, en los cancioneros cuatrocentistas castellanos in the group
Poetics and Poetry on Humanities Commons 7 months agoNo creo que haya mejor ocasión que este homenaje alcalaíno al maestro Alberto Blecua para vencer las reticencias y dudas del neófito que, en palabras de Márquez Villanueva, ha de pisar por vez primera los “senderos de alto riesgo” por los que camina el Libro de buen amor. Por motivo de mi admiración y reconocimiento al homenajeado, voy a dejarme…[Read more]
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Behnam M. Fomeshi deposited Mostafa Abedinifard, Omid Azadibougar, Amirhossein Vafa (eds.). Persian Literature as World Literature in the group
Poetics and Poetry on Humanities Commons 7 months, 2 weeks agoPersian literature used to be visibly worldly when Persian was a lingua franca in a vast space from Balkan to China. With the British colonialism in the India and the rise of nation states in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Persian lost its status and became more national in various contexts. In Iran it only got worsened with sanctions,…[Read more]
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Seo-Young Chu deposited “Dear Stanford: You must reckon with your history of sexual violence” by Seo-Young Chu in the group
Poetics and Poetry on Humanities Commons 8 months, 2 weeks agoIn 2000 a Stanford professor raped me. My rape is now older than I was. (I’m still not as old as he was.) The more time passes the more I’m struck by Stanford’s apathy and fecklessness about sexual violence. I wrote a letter asking Stanford to stop compounding the abuse and to reckon with its rape culture. This letter—including the “Incomp…[Read more]
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Seo-Young Chu deposited Utopias Misplaced: The Cost of Outsourcing Dystopian Poetics to North Korea in the group
Poetics and Poetry on Humanities Commons 8 months, 4 weeks agoThis is a slightly revised version of the text of a talk that I (Seo-Young Chu) gave as part of the Fall 2014 Franke Lectures in the Humanities at Yale University. I’m sharing the text here to make the lecture more accessible. Topics include: North Korea/the DPRK, the “uncanny body politic,” the uncanny valley, “dystopian poetics,” what it means…[Read more]
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Behnam M. Fomeshi deposited Asghar Seyed-Gohrab. Martyrdom, mysticism and dissent: the poetry of the 1979 Iranian revolution and the Iran-Iraq war (1980-1988) in the group
Poetics and Poetry on Humanities Commons 10 months, 1 week agoBook review
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Seo-Young Chu deposited Hwabyung Fragments in the group
Poetics and Poetry on Humanities Commons 10 months, 1 week agoIn “Hwabyung Fragments” the Korean American poet Seo-Young Chu uses pieces of Korean mythology, family lore, DMZ iconography, speculative lyricism, allusions to Plato’s Symposium (the figure of one’s missing other half), and allusions to chimerism, mosaicism, and twinning to explore generational trauma, Korean division, postmemory han, the…[Read more]
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Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited Serafí de Centelles, comte d’Oliva, i la cultura valenciana del Renaixement in the group
Poetics and Poetry on Humanities Commons 10 months, 1 week agoA pesar que puga semblar una mica pueril, crec que he de començar aquest treball amb una asseveració rotunda: el Cancionero general no es va editar a València per casualitat. Les edicions de 1511 i 1514 no van ser solament el resultat del moltes vegades problemàtic pelegrinatge vital dels erudits literaris de l’època que, com Hernando del Castil…[Read more]
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Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited La noblesa valenciana en el Cancionero general (1511): L’exemple de Francesc Gilabert de Fenollet (ca. 1480–1548), batlle de Xàtiva in the group
Poetics and Poetry on Humanities Commons 10 months, 1 week agoEl 22 de desembre de 1509, l‘erudit castellà Hernando del Castillo, el mercader genovés Lorenzo Ganoto i l’impressor Cristóbal Cofman firmaven a la ciutat de València, davant el notari Joan Casanova, el contracte de la primera edició del Cancionero general, que va veure la llum finalment l’any 1511. En esència, la distribució del treball era…[Read more]
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Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited Valencia en el Cancionero general de Hernando del Castillo: los poetas y los poemas in the group
Poetics and Poetry on Humanities Commons 10 months, 1 week agoEl presente trabajo presenta un panorama de síntesis biográfica con respecto a los poetas valencianos presentes en el Cancionero general de Hernando del Castillo. Asimismo, los poemas que contienen temas típicos de Valencia también son analizados, con el objetivo de estimular un mayor conocimiento de los hombres y la ciudad en cuyo entorno cul…[Read more]
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