I’m honored to be included in Counterclaims a new book, edited by H.L. Hix, from Dalkey Archive Press
— featuring ‘many of the most influential voices in contemporary poetics’
Available, here: https://bit.ly/2xZn4tH
Years ago, upon the invitation of an American poet and thinker I admire, H.L. Hix, I participated in a project that was originally a blog chain called “Progressive Poetics.” (It still exists: just go to https://www.hlhix.com/inquire/ , and click on the “Progressive Poetics” button in the right-hand column.)
I'm pleased to, now, hold this book version!
Hix invited us to address whether the old truths inherent in 20th-century poetics can still be adhered to today.
Specifically, to respond to two well-known statements about poetry:
W.H. Auden's Poetry makes nothing happen composed at the beginning of World War 2
&
Theodor Adorno's To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric
written in the aftermath of the Holocaust.
Counterclaims is a kind of conversation sparked by these incendiary remarks and it is the editor's wish that you will "find provocation in the book: ideas to embrace, to contest, to chew on."
Below, is a peek at my entry:
