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The underground poetry metro transportation system for souls : essays on the cultural life of poetry /

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"The Underground Poetry Metro Transportation System for Souls collects 16 essays by late Tony Hoagland. Gathered by Hoagland himself into a volume for the Poets on Poetry series, these pieces grapple with an expansive range of poetic and cultural concerns-and the surprising and necessary knowle...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hoagland, Tony (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2019.
Series:Poets on poetry.
Subjects:
Poetry > History and criticism.
Poetry > Themes, motives.
Poetry > Appreciation.
Poetry > Influence.
Poetry.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • "What You See Is Nothing Compared to the Root":
  • Images of the Psyche in the Poem
  • Ceremony and Discrimination: Two Muscles of Poetry
  • What These Ithakas Mean:
  • Some Thoughts about Metaphor and Questing
  • Cast Swine before Pearls:
  • Comedy, Shamanic Rage, and Poetry
  • The Bravery of Trespass:
  • Four Poems about Race by White Poets
  • No Laughing Matter: Race, Poetry, and Humor
  • "I Seem to Be at a Great Feast":
  • The War Poems of Guillaume Apollinaire
  • The Pursuit of Ignorance:
  • The Challenging Figuration of Not Knowing
  • The Power of Coldness
  • "I Live My Life in Growing Orbits":
  • Robert Bly as Role Model
  • "Who Wished to Improve Us a Little by Living":
  • Remembering Auden's Influence
  • The Poet as Wounded Citizen
  • Mass Culture and the American Poet:
  • The Poem as Vaccination
  • The Wild Life of Metaphor:
  • Prehensile, Triangulating, Insubordinate
  • Poetry, the Dangers of Realism, and the
  • Revisionist Power of Fantasy
  • Greatness Is All Around Us.