{"product_id":"holding-patterns-daniel-mcguiness-9780791449547","title":"Holding Patterns: Temporary Poetics in Contemporary Poetry","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eArgues that if poems are to matter in American culture, they must be read rather than theorized over.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHolding Patterns provides a sympathetic criticism of poems, one that avoids the appliance of criticism and that self-consciously persists in close readings of texts as the directing force of its argument. Presently, contemporary literary criticism and contemporary poetry in America seem at cross-purposes. Indeed, current literary critics seldom address the poems of their contemporaries. While structuralists and other schools of critics seek terms, generalizations, and whole systems to account for and to understand poems, poets themselves repeatedly assert that each poem has its own poetic and that no system applies to their writing. This book reads poems by contemporary poets, such as Jorie Graham, Charles Wright, Denis Johnson, and Amy Clampitt, not to illuminate a theory but to shed light on the poem.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Daniel McGuiness\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0791449548\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780791449547\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e State University of New York Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/29\/2001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 202\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.94h x 5.90w x 0.48d","brand":"Daniel McGuiness","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48065126662399,"sku":"9780791449547","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c7bb88fd-9a05-4b7a-99ab-69f1c6fb9d07.jpg?v=1768673164","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/holding-patterns-daniel-mcguiness-9780791449547","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}