{"id":1812,"date":"2013-04-17T09:30:21","date_gmt":"2013-04-17T01:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=1812"},"modified":"2013-04-16T00:10:35","modified_gmt":"2013-04-15T16:10:35","slug":"jonathan-stalling-reviews-jacob-edmonds-a-common-strangeness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=1812","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan Stalling Reviews Jacob Edmond’s A Common Strangeness"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"200\"MCLC <\/em><\/a>has published Jonathan Stalling’s review of Jacob Edmond’s A Common Strangeness: Contemporary Poetry, Cross-Cultural Encounter, Comparative Literature<\/em><\/a>. Here’s how it begins:<\/p>\n

To begin with, Jacob Edmond’s new book, A Common Strangeness<\/em>, is anything but common and signals what I hope will be a new trend toward more ambitious studies of late-modernist to contemporary poetics on a global scale. While it might be premature to announce the arrival of a “global poetics,” there is a pressing need for a space to explore this genre specific cognate of World Literature, a space to reimagine what in China operates under the title: comparative poetics (\u6bd4\u8f83\u8bd7\u5b66<\/span>). This is a robust area of academic research in China, yet it tends to reduce poetry and poetics to the pre WWII traditional canon: Plato, Aristotle, and Longinus; Sidney, Pope, and Johnson; Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Emerson; Poe, Arnold, and Eliot; and perhaps Frost, Williams, Hughes, and, because it is China, Pound. In English literary criticism today, however, the term “poetics” often demarks poetry discourses consciously connected to avant-garde practice along the vectors of a more radical canon: Blake, Whitman, Stein, Pound, Zukofsky, Olson, Mac Low\/John Cage to Susan Howe, Lyn Hejinian and others associated with the so-called LANGUAGE poets from the 1970s forward through neo-conceptual poetry, etc … One should also mention that scholars tracking trends in contemporary poetics in the West have remained problematically Anglophonocentric and have largely failed to attend to poetic shifts on a global scale unless such shifts are explicitly conversant in the idioms of innovative English-based poetics (including those within the Sinophone sphere). So while no single volume could ever hope to connect the multitudinous and heterogeneous threads of a “global poetics,” A Common Strangeness<\/em> succeeds in moving in this direction in part by offering a critical lens (strangeness) through which to view poetry on a global scale.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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MCLC has published Jonathan Stalling’s review of Jacob Edmond’s A Common Strangeness: Contemporary Poetry, Cross-Cultural Encounter, Comparative Literature. Here’s how it begins: To begin with, Jacob Edmond’s new book, A Common Strangeness, is anything but common and signals what I … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[16],"tags":[1044,1042,66,50,1045,27,1055,356,1048,38,1054,1056,354,1057,210,1050,1043,267,357,1051,1052,1041,1047,927,1046,671,1049,812,1053,315,21],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-te","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2062,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2062","url_meta":{"origin":1812,"position":0},"title":"Three Reviews of Jacob Edmond’s A Common Strangeness","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"July 9, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Three new reviews of Jacob Edmond's A Common Strangeness have appeared. Brian Reed's \"Chances of Rhyme\": The words transnational and globalization appear frequently within scholarship on contemporary poetry, but so far there have been few sustained attempts to narrate recent developments across more than two language-groups or geographical regions. ...\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Links"","block_context":{"text":"Links","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?cat=3"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-scbv1Njt6jI\/UaT9TAqCXnI\/AAAAAAAAAz4\/4okyQ_BQiZU\/s320\/edmond.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1774,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=1774","url_meta":{"origin":1812,"position":1},"title":"Vitaly Chernetsky reviews Jacob Edmond’s A Common Strangeness","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"March 27, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Vitaly Chernetsky has reviewed Jacob Edmond's A Common Strangeness. 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