Hewing to Experience: Essays and Reviews on Recent American Poetry and Poetics, Nature and Culture
Nov 1989 · University of Iowa Press
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Hewing to Experience charts Sherman Paul's course of coming to know William Carlos Williams, Hart Crane, Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, and Gary Snyder and the critical scholarship devoted to them as it provides an assessment of recent criticism. The initial section, on criticism and poetry, sets out many of the insistences that give this valuable collection of essays and reviews its coherence. Considered are criticism, poetics, poetry and old age, ethnopoetics, the gift exchange of imagination, and the recent and controversial enterprise of canon formation. The final section of Hewing to Experience provides an important, meditative rereading of the work of Barry Lopez that convincingly places ecological writing within the large revisionist project of avant-garde poetry. Of particular note, too, is the full commentary on the Olson-Creeley correspondence. Throughout, Paul's humane enthusiasm is evident. Hewing to Experience merits the readership of all those who are interested in contemporary poetry and concerned with the ongoing criticism of major poets and with critical practice.
Hewing to Experience charts Sherman Paul's course of coming to know William Carlos Williams, Hart Crane, Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, and Gary Snyder and the critical scholarship devoted to them as it provides an assessment of recent criticism. The initial section, on criticism and poetry, sets...
About the author
Sherman Paul is Carver Professor of English Emeritus at the University of Iowa. He is the author of a number of books, including The Music of Survival, Hart’s Bridge, Olson’s Push,The Lost America of Love, and In Search of the Primitive.
Sherman Paul is Carver Professor of English Emeritus at the University of Iowa. He is the author of a number of books, including The Music of Survival, Hart’s Bridge, Olson’s Push,The Lost America of Love, and In Search of the Primitive.
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