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'‘Poems reawaken in us,’ writes James Longenbach, ‘the pleasure of the unintelligibility of the world.’ They do so via ‘mechanisms of self-resistance’: disjunctive strategies that work, for Longenbach, to ‘resist our intelligence almost successfully’. What ‘almost’ means here is, of course, a matter of taste – and style. Nonetheless, this Romantic mandate – that poems achieve clarity by integrating opacity – invites a question fundamental to poetics: how much resistance is too much, or not enough?' (Introduction)
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Strange Communion : Questions of Poetic Resistance
Australian Book Review
Australian Book Review
Review of:
- Parallel Equators 2023 selected work poetry
- Camping Underground 2022 selected work poetry
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