Book contents
- The Cambridge History of American Poetry
- The Cambridge History of American Poetry
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Beginnings: Poetry before 1800
- Part II A New Nation: Poetry from 1800 to 1900
- Part III Forms of Modernism, 1900–1950
- Part IV Beyond Modernism: American Poetry, 1950–2000
- Chapter 36 San Francisco and the Beats
- Chapter 37 The New York School
- Chapter 38 The Uses of Authenticity
- Chapter 39 James Merrill and His Circles
- Chapter 40 Science in Contemporary American Poetry
- Chapter 41 The 1970s and the “Poetry of the Center”
- Chapter 42 Latino Poetry and Poetics
- Chapter 43 Asian American Poetry
- Chapter 44 Psychoanalytic Poetics
- Chapter 45 American Poetry of the 1980s
- Chapter 46 Black and Blues Configurations
- Chapter 47 Amy Clampitt, Culture Poetry, and the Neobaroque
- Chapter 48 Modern and Contemporary Children’s Poetry
- Chapter 49 Multilingualism in Contemporary American Poetry
- Chapter 50 American Poetry at the End of the Millennium
- Selected Bibliographies
- Index
Chapter 44 - Psychoanalytic Poetics
from Part IV - Beyond Modernism: American Poetry, 1950–2000
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 December 2014
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Book contents
- The Cambridge History of American Poetry
- The Cambridge History of American Poetry
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Beginnings: Poetry before 1800
- Part II A New Nation: Poetry from 1800 to 1900
- Part III Forms of Modernism, 1900–1950
- Part IV Beyond Modernism: American Poetry, 1950–2000
- Chapter 36 San Francisco and the Beats
- Chapter 37 The New York School
- Chapter 38 The Uses of Authenticity
- Chapter 39 James Merrill and His Circles
- Chapter 40 Science in Contemporary American Poetry
- Chapter 41 The 1970s and the “Poetry of the Center”
- Chapter 42 Latino Poetry and Poetics
- Chapter 43 Asian American Poetry
- Chapter 44 Psychoanalytic Poetics
- Chapter 45 American Poetry of the 1980s
- Chapter 46 Black and Blues Configurations
- Chapter 47 Amy Clampitt, Culture Poetry, and the Neobaroque
- Chapter 48 Modern and Contemporary Children’s Poetry
- Chapter 49 Multilingualism in Contemporary American Poetry
- Chapter 50 American Poetry at the End of the Millennium
- Selected Bibliographies
- Index
Summary
W.H. Auden's scenario implies that psychoanalysis will produce a new poem. Poets protested that the term confessional ignored meticulous craftsmanship and knowing self-dramatization. Poets from midcentury have explored psychoanalytic models of personhood, voice, and dialogue to complicate models of lyric expressivity. Mouths recur throughout Plath's poetry, mediating between the realm of bodies, blood, and wounds and the potentially more ethereal realm of voice. The sequence of poems about beekeeping that closes Sylvia Plath's Ariel manuscript links poetic creation with organic production and reproduction. To speak because one is shattered might be to utter a cry of emotional devastation. Although it might equally be to recognize that to speak is to be open to, and broken open by, the conditions of speech: psychoanalytic, linguistic, social, and historical. In the new century, the divide between sincere lyric and experimental poetry has been perceived to have broken down.
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