LEADER 04903nam 2200565 450 001 9910794516003321 005 20231110221016.0 010 $a0-8173-9370-6 035 $a(CKB)4100000011990743 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC28653143 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL28653143 035 $a(OCoLC)1262189645 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_94003 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011990743 100 $a20230117d2021 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aOrphic bend $emusic and innovative poetics /$fRobert L. Zamsky 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aTuscaloosa, Alabama :$cThe University of Alabama Press,$d[2021] 210 4$dİ2021 215 $a1 online resource (224 pages) 225 1 $aModern and Contemporary Poetics 311 $a0-8173-6014-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [195]-203) and index. 327 $aOpera, poetics, and the fate of humanism : Ezra Pound and Charles Bernstein -- "Measure, then, is my testament" : Robert Creeley and the poet's music -- Orpheus in the garden : John Taggart -- Eurydice takes the mic : improvisation and ensemble in the work of Tracie Morris -- "Orphic bend" : music and meaning in the work of Nathaniel Mackey. 330 $a"Orphic Bend: Music and Innovative Poetics explores the impact of music on recent pioneering literary practices in the United States. Adopting the myth of Orpheus as its framework, Robert L. Zamsky argues that works by Charles Bernstein, Robert Creeley, John Taggart, Tracie Morris, and Nathaniel Mackey restage ancient debates over the relationship between poetry and music even as they develop work that often sharply diverges from traditional literary forms. Opening each chapter with a consideration of the orphic roots of lyric, Zamsky integrates contemporary debates over the prospects and limitations of humanism, the meaningfulness of gesture and performance, and the nature of knowledge with the poetics of the writers under consideration, grounding his analysis in close readings of their work. The myth of Orpheus is used as a lens throughout the book, its different facets illuminating sometimes dramatically different aspects of the shared framework of poetry and music. In the case of Bernstein, for instance, Zamsky highlights Ezra Pound's meditations on the relationship between poetry and music (the ground upon which Pound seeks to recapture the lost possibilities of the Renaissance) and Bernstein's incisive critique of Pound. For her part, Morris emphasizes the performative power of spoken language, foregrounding the fact that all spoken language bears cultural, communal, and personal marks of the speaker, improving an ensemble self even within the most elemental features of language. Meanwhile, in Mackey's work, the orphic voice of the poet powerfully reaches toward an order of knowledge in which poetry and music are nearly indecipherable from one another. In this sense, music and the musicality of poetic language are the gateways for Mackey's Gnosticism, the mechanisms of initiation into a realm, not of secrets to be learned, but of visionary knowing that continuously unfolds. The text explores a range of musical influences on the writers under consideration, from opera to different iterations of jazz, and underscores the variety of ways in which music informs their work. Many of these writers effectively present a theory of music in their invocations of it as an inspiration for, or as an analog to, poetic practice. Zamsky's focus on poetry and music echoes important interdisciplinary studies on literary modernism, a period for which the importance of music to literary practice is well established and extends that discussion to the contemporary context. In doing so, Orphic Bend provides an important opportunity to consider both the specific legacy of modernism, and to situate contemporary writers in broader historical contexts."--Provided by publisher. 410 0$aModern and Contemporary Poetics 606 $aMusic and literature$zUnited States$xHistory$y21st century 606 $aMusic and literature$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aAmerican poetry$y21st century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican poetry$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aMusic in literature 615 0$aMusic and literature$xHistory 615 0$aMusic and literature$xHistory 615 0$aAmerican poetry$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican poetry$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aMusic in literature. 676 $a811/.54093578 700 $aZamsky$b Robert L.$f1970-$01492492 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910794516003321 996 $aOrphic bend$93715034 997 $aUNINA