02101 am 22004693u 450 991013718750332120230621141327.09780692335543(paperback)(CKB)3710000000534163(SSID)ssj0001664902(PQKBManifestationID)16453969(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001664902(PQKBWorkID)14998981(PQKB)11268955(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/29085(EXLCZ)99371000000053416320160829d2014 uy 0enguubu#---uuuuutxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierAction poems /Anthony OpalBrooklyn, NYpunctum books2014New York :Punctum Books,20141 online resource (74 pages) illustrations; digital, PDF file(s)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: MonographPrint version: 9780692335543 ACTION — as in begin, genesis, motion — is a collection of poems ultimately concerned with form, those lines drawn in the sand that give way to the profanity of the holy, the holiness of the profane. Throughout ACTION, Opal engages the constraints inherent to seemingly fixed forms. From living with rheumatoid arthritis, to feeling for the edges of a sonnet tradition, to wrestling with the tenets of historical theology, this collection demonstrates that the only way to honestly submit to a form is to rage against it. However, to assume that this rage is not a kind of explosive joy—a Barthesian jouissance—would be to miss the point of poems that Dean Young has described as “radiant affirmations of life and art.”PoetrypoetrysonnetformalismwaxwingsmonarchyPoetry.Opal Anthony956534PQKBUkMaJRU9910137187503321Action2166003UNINA