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Poetry's Knowing Ignorance

By Joseph Acquisto

Poetry's Knowing Ignorance

By Joseph Acquisto

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What kind of knowledge, if any, does poetry provide? Poets make poems, but they also make meaning and craft a kind of learned and creative ignorance as they provide infinitely revisable answers to the question of what poetry is. That question of poetry's definition invites broader ones about the relationship of poetry to other lived experience. Poetry thus implies something like a way of life that is resistant to definitive statements and conclusions, and the creation of communities of readers and writers that live in ever-renewed questioning.
To resist concluding is to embrace a kind of productive ignorance, a knowledge that is first and foremost aware of poetic knowledge's own limits. Poetry's Knowing Ignorance shows, through an examination of French poetry, how it is this dialogue in response to a constant questioning, to an answer-turned-question, that continues to blur the boundary between poetry and writing about poetry, between poetry and criticism, and between poetry and other kinds of experience.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
222
Release Date:
2019-09-19
Publication Date:
2019-09-19
Publisher:
Bloomsbury 3PL
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1501355228
ISBN13:
9781501355226
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
479 g
Height:
157 cm
Width:
235 cm
Thickness:
17 cm
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