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The Poet´s Freedom
Susan Stewart
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Description for The Poet´s Freedom
Paperback. Why do we need new art? How free is the artist in making? And why is the artist, and particularly the poet, a figure of freedom in Western culture? This book explores and celebrates the freedom of artists who, working under finite conditions, make considered choices and shape surprising consequences. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: AB; DSA; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 161 x 172 x 17. Weight in Grams: 398.
Why do we need new art? How free is the artist in making? And why is the artist, and particularly the poet, a figure of freedom in Western culture? The MacArthur Award-winning poet and critic Susan Stewart ponders these questions in "The Poet's Freedom". Through a series of evocative essays, she not only argues that freedom is necessary to making and is itself something made, but also shows how artists give rules to their practices and model a self-determination that might serve in other spheres of work. Stewart traces the ideas of freedom and making through insightful readings of an ... Read more
Why do we need new art? How free is the artist in making? And why is the artist, and particularly the poet, a figure of freedom in Western culture? The MacArthur Award-winning poet and critic Susan Stewart ponders these questions in "The Poet's Freedom". Through a series of evocative essays, she not only argues that freedom is necessary to making and is itself something made, but also shows how artists give rules to their practices and model a self-determination that might serve in other spheres of work. Stewart traces the ideas of freedom and making through insightful readings of an ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226773872
SKU
V9780226773872
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About Susan Stewart
Susan Stewart, a poet, critic, and translator, is the Avalon Foundation University Professor in the Humanities at Princeton University. Her most recent books of poems-Red Rover, Columbarium (which won the National Book Critics Circle Award), and The Forest-and works of criticism, The Open Studio and Poetry and the Fate of the Senses, are all published by the University of Chicago ... Read more
Reviews for The Poet´s Freedom
"Susan Stewart is an investigator of linguistic nuance and a new metaphysics, par excellence.... I believe she is one of the finest poets of the last fifty years." -John Kinsella, Salt Magazine "Stewart's meditations on the history of poetry and the poetic are in themselves an original contribution to the philosophy of culture." -Hayden White, author of Figural Realism"