The poetics of wrongness /
The Poetics of Wrongness is a collection of essay/talks that the poet Rachel Zucker, expanded from lectures presented for the Bagley Wright Lecture Series in 2016. Devastating in their revelations, yet hopeful in their endurance, these are lectures of protest and reckoning. Zucker declares "I w...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Seattle :
Wave Books,
[2023].
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Bagley Wright lecture series.
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| Summary: | The Poetics of Wrongness is a collection of essay/talks that the poet Rachel Zucker, expanded from lectures presented for the Bagley Wright Lecture Series in 2016. Devastating in their revelations, yet hopeful in their endurance, these are lectures of protest and reckoning. Zucker declares "I write against. My poetics is a poetics of opposition and provocation that I never outgrew. Against the status quo or the powers that be, writing out of and into wrongness." Thus, Zucker deftly dismantles the outdated paradigms of motherhood, aesthetics, feminism, poetics and politics. Bringing Bernadette Mayer, Marina Abramovic, Alice Notley, Adrienne Rich and Audre Lorde, among many others, into the conversation, Zucker questions the categories that have been imposed on poetry, as well as a poet's need to speak, and the resulting responsibilities. Prescient in their original observations, these expanded talks seek to respond to and engage the many political events since their presentation, remaining timelessly persistent in their galvanizing force. |
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| Physical Description: | 219 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781950268702 1950268705 |