Social Poesis : The Poetry of Rachel Zolf
by
Rachel Zolf
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Laurier Poetry
ISBN-10
1771124113
ISBN-13
9781771124119
Publisher
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Imprint
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Country of Manufacture
CA
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 16th, 2019
Print length
88 Pages
Weight
164 grams
Dimensions
15.30 x 22.90 x 1.40 cms
Product Classification:
PoetryPoetry / Poems
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Introduces readers to the work of one of Canada's most exciting and challenging poets. Through selections from across Rachel Zolf's poetic oeuvre, this book foregrounds the philosophical, ethical, and political questions that inform Zolf's poetry.
Social Poesis introduces readers to the work of one of Canada''s most exciting and challenging poets. Through selections from across Rachel Zolf''s poetic oeuvre, this book foregrounds the philosophical, ethical, and political questions that inform Zolf''s poetry. Selections range from early poems in which Zolf explores transhistorical trauma and queer subjectivity to more recent writings that examine militarism, settler colonialism, and other forms of state-sanctioned violence. Zolf''s poetry enacts what she calls a ""social poesis""; she is attuned to questions of ethical responsibility and the role, and limitations, of poetry as a tool for ethical thinking, political engagement, accountability, and bearing witness.
Heather Milne''s introduction examines Zolf''s compositional strategies, tracing the evolution of Zolf''s writing from an autobiographical poetics, in which Zolf as subject/speaker is locatable, toward a poetics that moves beyond the self to address political and ethical relations among subjects of geopolitics and settler colonialism. In her afterword, Zolf focuses on her most recent work, in which poems are composed almost entirely from archival sources and enact a kind of collective assemblage of enunciation.
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