The world is charged : poetic engagements with Gerard Manley Hopkins / edited by Daniel Westover and William Wright ; with an afterword by Paul Mariani.

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English
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  • Clemson, South Carolina : Clemson University Press, [2016]
  • ©2016
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xxii, 164 pages ; 23 cm

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    The discovery of Gerard Manley Hopkins's poetry in the twentieth century was a revelation for postwar poets, who discovered in both Hopkins's style and subject matter a voice seemingly bottled for their own time. This influence has not faded in the twenty-first century; in fact, it has grown all the more pervasive as poets from many backgrounds and nations have found, in the voice of this nineteenth-century Jesuit, a revolutionary way of addressing contemporary concerns relating to human imagination, ecology, "green" ethics, the role of art, and individual spirituality. The poets collected in The World Is Charged: Poetic Engagements with Gerard Manley Hopkins engage with Hopkins in diverse ways. Some mention Hopkins or address some aspect of his life. Others channel his innovative poetics or address important Hopkinsian themes. All demonstrate the centrality of his influence in contemporary poetry. Unfortunately, critics have mostly neglected the importance of Hopkins as a contemporary model, instead pinning his influence to the early twentieth century. In a climate where high modernism, Whitmanic free verse, and the confessional lyric are often held up as contemporary poetry's dominant forerunners, this book proposes a more complex genealogy, tracing back to Hopkins and his influential early admirers current strands of emotional and spiritual openness, pleasure in word play and sonic textures, and veneration of the dynamic material world.
    Contents
    • Acknowledgments
    • Foreword
    • Introduction
    • The kings of Missoula / Win Bassett
    • And the great white pelicans / Libby Bernardin
    • Inspiration. Taboo against the word beauty, ornithological version on aesthetic theory. bearded barley / Allen Braden
    • The bowerbirds. The small bang / Steven Collier Brown
    • Dappled things. Fire. Landscape. Spare / Robin Chapman
    • The language of pastoral. At Buck Hall / Morri Creech
    • Pied beauty / Carolyn Creedon
    • A dream of Hopkins. A simple garden ladder. The sleep / Philip Dacey
    • Ghazal for my selves, as Samson & Delilah. Aubade for one still uncertain of being born / Meg Day
    • Curtal sonnet (with an admonition) / R.H.W. Dillard
    • Confession to Hopkins / Lynn Domina
    • Come to me / Georgia Edwards
    • Hopkins in Kildare / Desmond Egan
    • August Green: a baptism. Birds at dawn / John Freeman
    • The acolyte / Alice Friman
    • To a young poet resisting Hopkins / Taylor Graham
    • Arrhythmia. Goldengrove / Jesse Graves
    • Date / Eve Grubin
    • All fall long / Luke Hankins
    • Strife / Maryanne Hannan
    • The bounds of belief. The mind and soul growing wide withal / Jeff Hardin
    • The horse on Zennor Hill / David Havird
    • The Tao of alphabet. Winter mother / Ava Leavell Haymon
    • My second-grade teacher reads us Gerard Manley Hopkins / Jane Hicks
    • A.M.: her lone spark dying / Jan D. Hodge
    • Ascension / Thomas Alan Holmes
    • That necessary evil. The end of the happy hours / Jay Hopler
    • One wet Wednesday afternoon / Ron Houchin
    • By eye-slit. Come on the cold. No fire. Would come back / Joan Houlihan
    • River, dissolution / James Clinton Howell
    • From Four Common Prayers / Rebecca Gayle Howell
    • Pater noster. Spring again. A psalm of ascents / Kimberly Johnson
    • Poinsett's Bridge / John Lane
    • Reverdie / Keagan LeJeune
    • The telegraph baby. Red kites at Tregaron / Gwyneth Lewis
    • Art. Saint's finger, Hill of Slane. In the absence of a contract / Ed Madden
    • Ten Penny. Red bird, black sky. The tabernacle of love / Maurice Manning
    • Instructions to an artisan. Prayer. The Christ-frost. Horse apocalypse / Amit Majmudar
    • Migration theory. Never-ending birds / Sandra Marchetti
    • Hopkins in Ireland. Epitaph for the journey / Paul Mariani
    • Parable fo the red-tailed hawks / Christopher Martin
    • Scoop / Mariana McDonald
    • What to tell the girl / Ashley Anna McHugh
    • Finding home by taste, by fire. Winter solstice / Lucien Darjeun Meadows
    • Complien. Elegy for D.S. / Philip Metres
    • Praise song for Nikky Finney. Coastland / Susan Laughter Meyers
    • Breath and bread / Maren O. Mitchell
    • I waked and fell / Meredith Moench
    • Maple gall. Algae. Aspen song. Left behind / Robert Morgan
    • Hawk in the Bronx / Angela Alaimo O'Donnell
    • The canary. Christ imagined as cavalry commander. October trees. Prayer to the birds / Melissa Range
    • Dylan Thomas. The corpse bird. Speckled trout. Fall Creek / Ron Rash
    • Fossil huntin at the quarry / Janeen Pergrin Rastall
    • Equinoctial. A question of ear. The mercy seat / Joshua Robbins
    • Savior / Don Share
    • Ornithology 101. Oystermen. Prayer with fur. Prayer with game / Derek Sheffield
    • Collateral damage / Mark Smith-Soto
    • These fatals. Elemental / Cheryl Stiles
    • Via negativa. In Tennessee I found a firefly. Knocking or nothing / Mary Szybist
    • Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) / R.K.R. Thornton
    • A local landfill's invitation to trash left on the moon. Oil. Ego / Pimone Triplett
    • Perspective. Spouse. Saw / Damian Walford Davies
    • Breeze-born. Margaret's reply / Daniel Westover
    • Sea journal / Katharine Whitcomb
    • The baker falls for Hopkins / Sarah Ann Winn
    • A sestina for Mishima. H ποιητική / John Wood
    • Meditation on the hands of a boy miner. The acolyte. Boy with kite / William Kelley Woolfitt
    • Jesuit graves. The is a balm in Gilead / Charles Wright
    • Michelle in rain. A path through walnut trees after rain / William Wright
    • Aubade for yellow jacket / William Wright
    • Afterword
    • Contributors.
    ISBN
    • 9781942954200 ((paperback))
    • 1942954204 ((paperback))
    OCLC
    969937835
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