Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Baker, Peter

Titel

The Fate of Modern Poetries

Ist Teil von

• College Literature, 2008-10, Vol.35 (4), p.188-197

Ort / Verlag

West Chester: West Chester University

Erscheinungsjahr

2008

Quelle

Literature Online (LION)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Hence, Olson's turn in the later Maximus poems to an idiosyncratic mythopoetics that is itself a kind of "failure" to articulate the natural and the social: "Conscious of his invasion by or inseparability from these collective cultural forces, Olson seems to have lost confidence in the individual's ability to create myth that would unify human and natural being" (63). [...] Creeley (and to some extent the other poets) broke with Olson's conception of the force field as something taking place with respect to nature: "As Creeley abandoned Olson's (and earlier modernist) view of language as structured by natural reference, his poetry began to explore the structure of language in isolation and its role as an independent agent forming self" (75).