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25. Mark Ford: Intriguing, Funny, Prophetic
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents vii
- Introduction 1
- 1 The Ocean, the Bird, and the Scholar.How the Arts Help Us to Live 15
- 2. Fin-de-Siècle Lyric. W. B. Yeats and Jorie Graham 27
- 3. The Unweary Blues. The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes 43
- 4. The Nothing That Is. Chickamauga, by Charles Wright 62
- 5. American X-Rays. Forty Years of Allen Ginsberg’s Poetry 71
- 6. The Waste Land. Fragments and Montage 79
- 7. The Snow Poems and Garbage. Episodes in A. R. Ammons’s Poetics 92
- 8. All Her Nomads. Collected Poems, by Amy Clampitt 120
- 9. Seamus Heaney and the Oresteia. “Mycenae Lookout” and the Usefulness of Tradition 130
- 10. Melville. The Lyric of History 144
- 11. Lowell’s Persistence. The Forms Depression Makes 160
- 12. Wallace Stevens. Hypotheses and Contradictions, Dedicated to Paul Alpers 177
- 13. Ardor and Artifice. Merrill’s Mozartian Touch 199
- 14. The Titles. A. R. Ammons, 1926–2001 211
- 15. Poetry and the Mediation of Value. Whitman on Lincoln 226
- 16. “Long Pig”. The Interconnection of the Exotic, the Dead, and the Fantastic in the Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop 241
- 17. Stevens and Keats’s “To Autumn”. Reworking the Past 253
- 18. “The Circulation of Small Largenesses”. Mark Ford and John Ashbery 274
- 19. Wallace Stevens. Memory, Dead and Alive 289
- 20. Jorie Graham. The Moment of Excess 304
- 21. Attention, Shoppers. Where Shall I Wander, by John Ashbery 322
- 22. Seamus Heaney’s “Sweeney Redivivus”. Its Plot and Its Poems 332
- 23. The Democratic Eye. A Worldly Country, by John Ashbery 356
- 24. Losing the Marbles: James Merrill on Greece 368
- 25. Mark Ford: Intriguing, Funny, Prophetic 389
- 26. Notes from the Trepidarium. Stay, Illusion, by Lucie Brock-Broido 399
- 27. Pried Open for All the World to See. Berryman the Poet 410
- Notes 423
- Credits 431
- Ac know ledg ments 435
- Index 437
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents vii
- Introduction 1
- 1 The Ocean, the Bird, and the Scholar.How the Arts Help Us to Live 15
- 2. Fin-de-Siècle Lyric. W. B. Yeats and Jorie Graham 27
- 3. The Unweary Blues. The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes 43
- 4. The Nothing That Is. Chickamauga, by Charles Wright 62
- 5. American X-Rays. Forty Years of Allen Ginsberg’s Poetry 71
- 6. The Waste Land. Fragments and Montage 79
- 7. The Snow Poems and Garbage. Episodes in A. R. Ammons’s Poetics 92
- 8. All Her Nomads. Collected Poems, by Amy Clampitt 120
- 9. Seamus Heaney and the Oresteia. “Mycenae Lookout” and the Usefulness of Tradition 130
- 10. Melville. The Lyric of History 144
- 11. Lowell’s Persistence. The Forms Depression Makes 160
- 12. Wallace Stevens. Hypotheses and Contradictions, Dedicated to Paul Alpers 177
- 13. Ardor and Artifice. Merrill’s Mozartian Touch 199
- 14. The Titles. A. R. Ammons, 1926–2001 211
- 15. Poetry and the Mediation of Value. Whitman on Lincoln 226
- 16. “Long Pig”. The Interconnection of the Exotic, the Dead, and the Fantastic in the Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop 241
- 17. Stevens and Keats’s “To Autumn”. Reworking the Past 253
- 18. “The Circulation of Small Largenesses”. Mark Ford and John Ashbery 274
- 19. Wallace Stevens. Memory, Dead and Alive 289
- 20. Jorie Graham. The Moment of Excess 304
- 21. Attention, Shoppers. Where Shall I Wander, by John Ashbery 322
- 22. Seamus Heaney’s “Sweeney Redivivus”. Its Plot and Its Poems 332
- 23. The Democratic Eye. A Worldly Country, by John Ashbery 356
- 24. Losing the Marbles: James Merrill on Greece 368
- 25. Mark Ford: Intriguing, Funny, Prophetic 389
- 26. Notes from the Trepidarium. Stay, Illusion, by Lucie Brock-Broido 399
- 27. Pried Open for All the World to See. Berryman the Poet 410
- Notes 423
- Credits 431
- Ac know ledg ments 435
- Index 437
