A Defense of Poetry (Pitt Poetry Series)

ISBN: 9780822957867

出版社: University of Pittsburgh Press

出版年: 2002-11

页数: 96

定价: USD 12.95

装帧: Paperback

内容简介

Gabriel Gudding's poems not only defend against the pretense and vanity of war, violence, and religion, but against the vanity of poetry itself. Sometimes nestling in the lowest regions of the body, his poems depict invective, donnybrooks, and chase scenes, as well as the indignities and bumblings of the besotted, the lustful, the annoyed, and the stupid. In short, Gudding seeks to reclaim the tasteless. Innovative, edgy, and dark, here is a writer unafraid to attack the unremitting self-seriousness of so much poetry, laughing with his readers as he twists the elegiac, lyric "I" into a pompous little clown.