Charles Simic and the Poetics of Uncertainty

ISBN-13: 9781032654232 / Miękka / 2024 / 148 str.

Donovan McAbee

Opis

Charles Simic and the Poetics of Uncertainty assesses the theological and linguistic uncertainties of Simic’s poetry and explores the ways that Simic articulates the aesthetic space created by poems, as a safe place of encounter for the reader.

Spis treści

1. "Himself Alone": Charles Simic becomes an American poet  2. "A poem is a place": te spaces of Simic’s poems  3. Metaphysical suspicions: Simic’s agnostic theology  4. "A permanent disruption": the role of humor in Simic’s poetry;  Conclusion: the political as personal: Simic’s poetry of survival

O autorze

Donovan McAbee is Associate Professor of Religion and the Arts at Belmont University, USA