{"product_id":"ars-poeticas-wesleyan-poetry","title":"Ars Poeticas (Wesleyan Poetry)","description":"\n\u003ctable align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"productDetailSmallElements\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eARS POETICA 1: CORAL\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eARS POETICA 2: SCOTCH BROOM\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eARS POETICA 3: BLUEBIRD-GHOST\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eARS POETICA 4: BISON\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eARS POETICA 5: GOBY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eARS POETICA 6: CORAL, AGAIN\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eARS POETICA 7: ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJULIANA SPAHR is a writer and scholar of literature. Her most recent book of poetry is \u003ci\u003eThat Winter the Wolf Came\u003c\/i\u003e (2015).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Juliana Spahr's \u003ci\u003eArs Poeticas\u003c\/i\u003e (Wesleyan Univ., Feb.) ask how one might write in troubled times. (Spahr started by reading Brecht.)\"--\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Throughout \u003ci\u003eArs Poeticas\u003c\/i\u003e, Spahr unpacks the steadily worsening threats of climate change and right-wing populism with humility and artistry. We can't help but wonder what poetry could ever add to the efforts to address them, if not just more lines of poetry. With \u003ci\u003eArs Poeticas\u003c\/i\u003e, the answer, despite Spahr's reservations, is a tremendous amount.\"--Christopher Kondrich, \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Spahr's \u003ci\u003eArs Poeticas \u003c\/i\u003eoffer insight into a conversation on and through the paths lyric pushes us to highlight, both light and dark, and how one might best move through it, even across the failures art provides. Can or should art, specifically poetry, save us? Is that even possible? In the end, Spahr's lyric might just be about survival. If we are willing to work for it, of course.\"--rob mclennan, \u003ci\u003erob mclennan's blog\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Juliana Spahr's \u003ci\u003eArs Poeticas\u003c\/i\u003e sticks an \u003ci\u003e-s\u003c\/i\u003e onto the title of antiquity's best-known poem-about-poetry, Horace's\u003ci\u003e Ars Poetica\u003c\/i\u003e (Latin, 'the art of poetry'). There isn't one meditation on the art of poetry here: there are seven, by turns digressive and recursive, self-questioning and self-devouring.\"--Christopher Spaide, \u003ci\u003eLiterary Hub\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"To be falsely comforted by poetry in our contemporary moment does a disservice to both poet and reader. One cannot write away the desecration, the wreckage. Silence, however, is its own form of desecration, and Spahr will not be silent--nor should the reader. The success of \u003ci\u003eArs Poeticas\u003c\/i\u003e will lie in the reader's ability to take it into the world, whether through their own poetry or with their own body.\"--Jeff Alessandrelli, \u003ci\u003eThe Good Man Has No Shape\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Writing the common from the Emersonian tradition has been central to Juliana Spahr's practice of the past few decades. Her work's discipline is processual, labile, and mobile, like Emerson's, and politically lyrical, like Whitman's after him.\"--Lauren Berlant, author of\u003ci\u003e On the Inconvenience of Other People\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Spahr's scenes of pastoral enchantment invoke enduring human fantasies of ecological coexistence grounded in mutual care and protection. Yet if these scenes lay the groundwork for the banishments to come, they also speak poignantly to the psychic need for these fantasies.\"--Margaret Ronda, author of\u003ci\u003e Remainders: American Poetry at Nature's End\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLyric meditations on writing poetry in a time of ecological crisis and right wing populism\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe 2026 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Poetry\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDuring the time of an increasingly powerful alt-right which was also the time when species extinction was ever increasing, Juliana Spahr sat down to read Brecht. She was looking for an answer to Brecht's question about the dark times, about whether there will also be singing during the dark times. The answer that Brecht provides is that yes, that poets will sing of the dark times. In the six ars poeticas that Spahr writes, she sings of the dark times but also of coral, the pop song's possible liberation, and the love of comrades. She writes not only of the rich history of what politics and poetry have done with each other, but what they might yet do together.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Sample Poem]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003efrom ARS POETICA 1: CORAL \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo write poetry after Castle Bravo.\u003cbr\u003eThen to write poetry after 1500 feet.\u003cbr\u003eAfter high-quality steel frame buildings\u003cbr\u003enot completely collapsed, except\u003cbr\u003eall panels and roofs blown in.\u003cbr\u003eAfter 2,000 feet.\u003cbr\u003eAfter reinforced concrete buildings collapsed\u003cbr\u003eor standing but badly damaged.\u003cbr\u003eAfter 3,500 feet.\u003cbr\u003eAfter church buildings completely destroyed.\u003cbr\u003eAfter brick walls severely cracked.\u003cbr\u003eAfter 4,400 feet.\u003cbr\u003eAfter 5,300 feet.\u003cbr\u003eAfter roof tiles bubbled and melted.\u003cbr\u003eAfter 6,500 feet.\u003cbr\u003eAfter mass distortion of large steel buildings.\u003cbr\u003eTo write the Cold War and doves.\u003cbr\u003eThe Cold War and tapeworms.\u003cbr\u003eThe Cold War and sails of ships.\u003cbr\u003eThe Cold War and the steel of bridges.\u003cbr\u003eTo write poetry after that.\u003cbr\u003eTo write in a world with few nutrients, \u003cbr\u003eone that rocks back and forth.\u003cbr\u003eThe same beginning in both the sea and the land.\u003cbr\u003eTo write poetry that knows a hard, cup-shaped skeleton.\u003cbr\u003eAnd then poetry that knows\u003cbr\u003ethe long, stinging tentacles capturing.\u003cbr\u003eKnows the water.\u003cbr\u003eThe Atlantic and the Pacific.\u003cbr\u003eThe connections between.\u003cbr\u003eThe one moving into the other.\u003cbr\u003eTo develop poetry in the stomach\u003cbr\u003ethat then exits through the mouth\u003cbr\u003ewhich is the anus.\u003cbr\u003eTo write poetry in the blue\u003cbr\u003ethat is the absence of green.\u003cbr\u003eLight penetration.\u003cbr\u003eWhorls of tentacles.\u003cbr\u003eThe slime earth too.\u003cbr\u003eHunters and farmers.\u003cbr\u003eShallow water.\u003cbr\u003eFew nutrients.\u003cbr\u003eHigh fecundity.\u003cbr\u003eRapid growth.\u003cbr\u003eMultiarmed morphology and tube feet.\u003cbr\u003eTo write tube feet.\u003cbr\u003eTo write the exact place.\u003cbr\u003eSeaward slope place.\u003cbr\u003eSea terrace place.\u003cbr\u003eAlgal ridge place.\u003cbr\u003eCoral algal zone place.\u003cbr\u003eSeaward reef flat place.\u003cbr\u003eIslet or interisland reef crest place.\u003cbr\u003eLagoon reef flat place.\u003cbr\u003eLagoon terrace place.\u003cbr\u003eLagoon floor or basin place.\u003cbr\u003eCoral knolls, pinnacle and patch reefs place.\u003cbr\u003eTo write poetry after.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\n","brand":"Wesleyan University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51496059601174,"sku":"9780819501523","price":31.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0857\/9910\/8886\/files\/9780819501523.jpg?v=1783052184","url":"https:\/\/lusper.myshopify.com\/products\/ars-poeticas-wesleyan-poetry","provider":"Lusperbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}