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'When I call poetry a form of partiality,' writes Heather McHugh, 'I mean its economies operate by powers of intimation: glimmering and glints, rather than exhaustible sums. It is a broken language from the beginning, brimming with non-words: all that white welled up to keep the line from surrendering to the margin; all that quiet, to keep the musics marked.'
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In Broken Eng 'When I call poetry a form of partiality,' writes Heather McHugh, 'I mean its economies operate by powers of intimation: glimmering and glints, rather than exhaustible sums. It is a broken language from the beginning, brimming with non-words: all that white welled up to keep the line from surrendering to the margin; all that quiet, to keep the musics marked.' In Broken English, McHugh applies her poetic sensibility and formidable critical insight to topics ranging from the poetry of Valry and Rilke to ancient Greek drama and Yoruba folk songs, offering intense, passionate, highly personal readings that are informed and unified by her concern for the relationships among language, culture, and poetry.
'When I call poetry a form of partiality,' writes Heather McHugh, 'I mean its economies operate by powers of intimation: glimmering and glints, rather than exhaustible sums. It is a broken language from the beginning, brimming with non-words: all that white welled up to keep the line from surrendering to the margin; all that quiet, to keep the musics marked.' In Broken Eng 'When I call poetry a form of partiality,' writes Heather McHugh, 'I mean its economies operate by powers of intimation: glimmering and glints, rather than exhaustible sums. It is a broken language from the beginning, brimming with non-words: all that white welled up to keep the line from surrendering to the margin; all that quiet, to keep the musics marked.' In Broken English, McHugh applies her poetic sensibility and formidable critical insight to topics ranging from the poetry of Valry and Rilke to ancient Greek drama and Yoruba folk songs, offering intense, passionate, highly personal readings that are informed and unified by her concern for the relationships among language, culture, and poetry. Broken English is a very exciting collection about poems, poets, and poetry by Heather McHugh. My favorites essays included one about fragments as poetry, what we have left of Greek writers and what those fragments mean to us.
McHugh writes brilliantly about Agamemnon and the role of the Greek chorus and how as language breaks apart, so does the social order.She is also insightful in her discussions of some of the more difficult poems of Emily Dickinson, showing how the poems open up into a mult Broken English is a very exciting collection about poems, poets, and poetry by Heather McHugh. My favorites essays included one about fragments as poetry, what we have left of Greek writers and what those fragments mean to us. McHugh writes brilliantly about Agamemnon and the role of the Greek chorus and how as language breaks apart, so does the social order.She is also insightful in her discussions of some of the more difficult poems of Emily Dickinson, showing how the poems open up into a multiplicity of meanings.
And her analyses of several poems of the almost opaque poet, Paul Celan, was impressive and opened up his poems to me in new ways.These essays are almost breathtaking in their quality and enlightening almost in the literal meaning of the word. The essays set off lights in my brain, helping me to make new connections and bringing me to new understanding of these poets and of poetry more generally.
McHugh challenges contemporary poetry to step outside the personal lyric and engage more actively with the world. I'd definitely recommend this book to just about anyone, but I'd also recommend reading it in smallish doses.
I had many 'aha' moments but many more 'huh?' Headscratching ones (in a good way).Heather McHugh's prose is quicksilver, whipsmart, and enthralling. I'll admit that I felt a little doltish when I was reading these essays, but I could feel my brain working hard and I definitely learned think in new ways about language & poetry.I mostly read this book on my lunch breaks Whew! I'd definitely recommend this book to just about anyone, but I'd also recommend reading it in smallish doses.
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I had many 'aha' moments but many more 'huh?' Headscratching ones (in a good way).Heather McHugh's prose is quicksilver, whipsmart, and enthralling. I'll admit that I felt a little doltish when I was reading these essays, but I could feel my brain working hard and I definitely learned think in new ways about language & poetry.I mostly read this book on my lunch breaks at work, so the index/notes section has bright orange Cheetos dust in many of the margins. I'd like to think Heather would approve.