The Art of Recklessness - Poetry As Assertive Force and Contradiction

Informationen zum Autor Dean Young Klappentext In The Art of Recklessness , Dean Young's sprawling and subversive first book of prose on poetry, imagination swerves into primitivism and surrealism and finally toward empathy. How can recklessness guide the poet, the artist, and the reader into art, and how can it excite in us a sort of wild receptivity, beyond craft? "Poetry is not a discipline," Young writes. "It is a hunger, a revolt, a drive, a mash note, a fright, a tantrum, a grief, a hoax, a debacle, an application, an affect . . ."

Product details

• Authors: Dean Young
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.07.2010
• EAN: 9781555975623
• ISBN: 978-1-55597-562-3
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 180 mm x 14 mm
• Series: Art of; Art of
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies