This three-day conference will bring together poets and scholars to explore the space where poetry intersects with the essay. Proposals for academic papers, panel discussions and readings of essay poetry are welcomed.
Topics and questions we would like to see addressed include:
Boundaries of form – what is an essay, what is a poem, what happens when the two meet?
Lyric theory and the essay: what does it mean to read the essay as lyric? Can lyric poetry approach the form of the essay?
Different types of essay poems: defining the sub-genres.
Forms used – prose poetry, found forms, tercets, couplets, quatrains; the place of rhyme and/or metre.
Language: polyvocality and code-switching, formal/informal language, voice.
Audience, in and out of the poem; the addressee and the reader.
Arguments and answers, questions and uncertainty. Logical and other modes of thinking, such as association, metaphor, lateral, subjective and experiential thinking.
The tensions arising from melding the forms – prose versus poetry, fact versus imagination, information versus art.
The lyric essay/essay poem as a literary tradition, from Horace to Pope to Shelley.
12月06日
2017
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2017
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