Ecstatic Émigré

An Ethics of Practice

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, Poetry History & Criticism, Poetry
Cover of the book Ecstatic Émigré by Claudia Keelan, University of Michigan Press
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Claudia Keelan ISBN: 9780472123827
Publisher: University of Michigan Press Publication: January 30, 2018
Imprint: University of Michigan Press Language: English
Author: Claudia Keelan
ISBN: 9780472123827
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Publication: January 30, 2018
Imprint: University of Michigan Press
Language: English

Most think of an émigré as one who leaves her native land to find home in another. Claudia Keelan, in essays both personal and critical, enlists poetic company for her journey, engaging both canonical and common figures, from Gertrude Stein to a prophetic Las Vegas cab driver named Caesar. Mapping her own peripatetic evolution in poetry and her nomadic life, she also engages with Christian and Buddhist doctrines on the virtues of dispossession.
?
Ecstatic Émigré pays homage to poets from Thoreau and Whitman to Alice Notley, all of whom share a commitment to living and writing in the moment. Keelan asks the same questions about the growth of flowers or the meaning of bioluminescence as she does about the poetics of John Cage or George Oppen. Her originality is grounded by the ways in which she connects poetic principles with the spiritual concepts of via negativa demonstrated both in St. John of the Cross and Mahayana Buddhism. In addition, her essays demonstrate an activist spirit and share a commitment to the passive resistance demonstrated in Martin Luther King, Jr.’s concept of the “beloved community” and philosopher Simone Weil’s dedication to “exile.”

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

Most think of an émigré as one who leaves her native land to find home in another. Claudia Keelan, in essays both personal and critical, enlists poetic company for her journey, engaging both canonical and common figures, from Gertrude Stein to a prophetic Las Vegas cab driver named Caesar. Mapping her own peripatetic evolution in poetry and her nomadic life, she also engages with Christian and Buddhist doctrines on the virtues of dispossession.
?
Ecstatic Émigré pays homage to poets from Thoreau and Whitman to Alice Notley, all of whom share a commitment to living and writing in the moment. Keelan asks the same questions about the growth of flowers or the meaning of bioluminescence as she does about the poetics of John Cage or George Oppen. Her originality is grounded by the ways in which she connects poetic principles with the spiritual concepts of via negativa demonstrated both in St. John of the Cross and Mahayana Buddhism. In addition, her essays demonstrate an activist spirit and share a commitment to the passive resistance demonstrated in Martin Luther King, Jr.’s concept of the “beloved community” and philosopher Simone Weil’s dedication to “exile.”

More books from University of Michigan Press

Cover of the book Imagining Adoption by Claudia Keelan
Cover of the book Art and the Market by Claudia Keelan
Cover of the book The U.S. Army Stability Operations Field Manual by Claudia Keelan
Cover of the book Performance and Media by Claudia Keelan
Cover of the book The Lying Brain by Claudia Keelan
Cover of the book Inside/Outside by Claudia Keelan
Cover of the book Late Sophocles by Claudia Keelan
Cover of the book Someone Shot My Book by Claudia Keelan
Cover of the book Lewd and Notorious by Claudia Keelan
Cover of the book Robert Hayden by Claudia Keelan
Cover of the book From Sorrow's Well by Claudia Keelan
Cover of the book Party Competition and Responsible Party Government by Claudia Keelan
Cover of the book State Institutions, Private Incentives, Global Capital by Claudia Keelan
Cover of the book Private Guns, Public Health, New Ed. by Claudia Keelan
Cover of the book Transformation and Trouble by Claudia Keelan
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy