{"id":370,"date":"2007-11-25T20:31:30","date_gmt":"2007-11-26T04:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.peakepro.com\/?p=370"},"modified":"2007-11-25T20:31:30","modified_gmt":"2007-11-26T04:31:30","slug":"help-me-find-poets-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/archives\/370-help-me-find-poets-iii.html","title":{"rendered":"Help Me Find Poets III"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am heading into the third semester at <a href=\"\/plugin\/tag\/Pacific+University\">Pacific<\/a>, where in lieu of ongoing commentaries on individual works, I will be writing a longer critical essay. At this point, I am thinking about writing about <a href=\"\/plugin\/tag\/Seamus+Heaney\">Seamus Heaney<\/a>, and in particular how he successfully navigates numerous dialectic elements in contemporary poetry, such as:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<table style=\"border-spacing: 4em 0.5em\">\n<tr>\n<td>Narration<\/td>\n<td>Lyricism<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Free verse<\/td>\n<td>Meter &amp; rhyme<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Meaning<\/td>\n<td>&#8220;<a href=\"\/plugin\/tag\/Stephen+Booth\">Precious Nonsense<\/a>&#8220;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Stichic<\/td>\n<td>Stanzaic<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Plain Speech<\/td>\n<td>Elevated diction<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In addition, I will continue to read widely from a variety of sources. Here is what I am thinking about adding to my reading list:<\/p>\n<p><b>On Poetry<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fredrick Smock, <i>Poetry And Compassion<\/i> (thank you, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jaredcarter.com\" target=\"_blank\">Mr. Carter<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Dorianne Laux and Kim Adonizzo, <i>The Poet&#8217;s Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Stephen Berg (ed.), <i>Singular Voices: American Poetry Today<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Poetry<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Umberto Saba, <i>Songbook: Selected Poems from the Canzoniere of Umberto Saba<\/i> (trans. Stephen Sartarelli)<\/li>\n<li>Marvin Bell, <i>The Book Of The Dead Man<\/i> and <i>Mars Being Red<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Paul Muldoon, <i>Horse Latitudes<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Jane Mead, <i>The Lord and the General Din of the World<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Ron Silliman (ed.), <i>In The American Tree<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Patrick Kavanagh, <i>Collected Poems<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Eavan Boland, <i>Selected Poems<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Seamus Heaney, <i>Opened Ground: Poems 1966-1996<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Seamus Heaney, <i>District and Circle<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Medbh McGuckian,  <i>Selected Poems: 1978-1994<\/i><\/li>\n<li>David St. John, <i>Study for the World&#8217;s Body: New and Selected Poems<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Tony Curtis (ed.), <i>The Art of Seamus Heaney<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Paul Celan,  <i>Poems of Paul Celan: A Bilingual German\/English Edition<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Ideas For Poetry Book Structure<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Issa, <i>The Year Of My Life<\/i> (trans. Nobuyuki Yuasa)<\/li>\n<li>Basho, <i>Back Roads To Far Towns<\/i> (trans. Kamaike Susumu and Cid Corman)<\/li>\n<li>Robert Lowell, <i>Life Studies<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Roland Barthes, <i>A Lover&#8217;s Discourse: Fragments<\/i> (trans. Richard Howard)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is only a cursory sketch for now. Any suggestions?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am heading into the third semester at Pacific, where in lieu of ongoing commentaries on individual works, I will be writing a longer critical essay. At this point, I am thinking about writing about Seamus Heaney, and in particular how he successfully navigates numerous dialectic elements in contemporary poetry, such as: Narration Lyricism Free &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/archives\/370-help-me-find-poets-iii.html\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Help Me Find Poets III<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30,1268,5],"tags":[435,529],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}