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Ballads / / Richard Owens



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Autore: Owens Richard <1973-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Ballads / / Richard Owens Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Brooklyn, NY, : punctum books, 2015
Buffalo, NY : , : eth press, , 2015
©2015
Edizione: Second edition.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (viii, 132 pages) : illustrations; PDF, digital file(s)
Soggetto topico: Poetry, Modern
Small press books
Poetry by individual poets
Soggetto non controllato: poetry
ballads
premodern England
global capitalism
Note generali: First edition published by habenicht press, 2012 --title-page verso.
Sommario/riassunto: Originally published by eth co-director David Hadbawnik’s habenicht press in 2012, Ballads uses the lyric form to explore the effects of global Capitalism from a sharp Marxist perspective. Recognizing the congruence between folk song circulation and the circulation of money, the “currency” of the ballad alongside supply-side economics, Owens hails Wordworth’s Lyric Ballads experiment (undertaken at the dawn of England’s Industrial Age) as one touchstone. But he also understands the built-in obsolescence of the form, its tendency to hearken back to imaginary origins. “[E]veryone has an idea they know what a ballad is,” Owens writes in his “Working Notes.” “It’s this degraded thing shot through with a sense of pastness, cultural infancy and a charming but sometimes dangerous rusticity that needs to be carefully framed and reined.” Thus Owens’ Ballads playfully engages with language, figures, and forms from medieval and early modern England, with nods to the caesura-based, alliterative line, and Barbara Allan, Thomas the Rhymer, and Piers Plowman making appearances in the book’s brief lyrics.
Titolo autorizzato: Ballads  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 9780615983936
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910247444903321
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