Columbarium de Susan Stewart

Columbarium: Phoenix Poets

Autor Susan Stewart

en Limba Engleză Hardback – oct 2003

Notăm cu interes publicarea volumului Columbarium, o lucrare de o rigoare intelectuală remarcabilă, distinsă cu prestigiosul National Book Critics Circle Award. Experiența de lectură este ghidată de „georgicele de umbră” — poeme de instruire și îndoială care, sub forma unui alfabet simbolic, fac legătura între cunoașterea conștientă și inconștient. Ne-a atras atenția modul în care Susan Stewart utilizează modelul „century forms” din secolul al XVII-lea pentru a structura cele 132 de pagini într-un spațiu care este, simultan, cuib și criptă.

Din punct de vedere al organizării, volumul se deschide și se închide cu omagii aduse elementelor primordiale — aerul și focul —, explorând rolul acestora în procesele de distrugere și creație. În interiorul acestei rame, cititorul întâlnește o progresie alfabetică, de la „Apple” și „Bees” până la „Zero”, unde obiecte cotidiene sau concepte abstracte devin vehicule pentru meditații asupra mortalității și memoriei. Stilul este caracterizat de o „răceală neoclasică”, așa cum notează critica de specialitate, unde pasiunea este tradusă în structuri limpezi și bine construite.

Columbarium reprezintă o extensie poetică a preocupărilor teoretice ale autoarei din Poetry and the Fate of the Senses, investigând modul în care simțurile eliberează adevărurile minții. În contextul operei sale, volumul continuă analiza începută în On Longing despre modul în care obiectele și narațiunile animă versiuni ale lumii. Ca alternativă la Eulogy for an Imperfect Man pentru cursurile de literatură contemporană sau poetică, lucrarea lui Stewart aduce avantajul unei structuri formale mult mai stricte și al unei profunzimi filozofice care depășește sfera memoriei personale, ancorându-se în mit și istoria literară.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780226774435
ISBN-10: 0226774430
Pagini: 132
Dimensiuni: 156 x 216 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: University of Chicago Press
Colecția University of Chicago Press
Seria Phoenix Poets

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm acest volum cititorilor care caută o poezie intelectuală, de o precizie tehnică rară. Columbarium oferă o meditație profundă asupra fragilității vieții și a puterii memoriei, fiind ideal pentru cei interesați de dialogul dintre literatura clasică și sensibilitatea modernă. Câștigarea premiului National Book Critics Circle atestă valoarea acestei opere în peisajul liric actual.

Despre autor

Susan Stewart este profesor de engleză (Regan Professor) la University of Pennsylvania și a fost onorată cu titlul de MacArthur Fellow. Recunoscută atât ca poetă, cât și ca unul dintre cei mai fini critici literari contemporani, opera sa acoperă o gamă vastă, de la volume de versuri precum The Forest la studii fundamentale despre estetică și cultură materială, precum On Longing și Crimes of Writing. Expertiza sa în analiza modului în care simțurile interacționează cu limbajul se reflectă profund în structura hibridă a lucrărilor sale.

Descriere scurtă

Winner of the 2003 National Book Critics Circle Award in the category of poetry.

In her long-awaited fourth book of poetry, Susan Stewart gives us a series of splendid, numinous poems about truths learned with the mind but set free through the senses. Modeled on the seventeenth-century practice of century forms, or books of one hundred pages, Columbarium expresses the bond between the living and the dead in voices of parent to child, lover to beloved, and mortal to the gods. The book arrives as a meditative gift from one of our most respected poet-critics.

Stewart frames her Columbarium with four poems paying homage to the elements-to their destructive and creative aspects and to their roles in the human and more than human worlds. Both nest and crypt, the book's center holds an alphabet of "shadow georgics," poems of instruction and doubt that link knowledge and the unconscious. Questions of mortality, of goodness and suffering, and of the fragility and power of memory animate these poems. In one poem an apple calls the narrator back from the dead to savor the echoes of its varieties in myth and literature. In another, the seeds of a pear tree reveal the essential unity that makes the diversity of existence possible.

Stewart's Columbarium is both a memorial to the dead and a testament to life.

Notă biografică

Susan Stewart is a professor of English at Princeton University and a former MacArthur Fellow. She is the author of three previous books of poetry, most recently The Forest, published by the University of Chicago Press and winner of the Literary Award of the Philadelphia Atheneum for 1995. She has also written several books of literary and art criticism, including Poetry and the Fate of the Senses, which won the Phi Beta Kappa Society's 2002 Christian Gauss Award for Literary Criticism and is also published by the University of Chicago Press.

Cuprins

Acknowledgments

I THE ELEMENTS
Sung from the generation of AIR
Drawn from the generation of FIRE

II SHADOW GEORGICS
Apple
Bees
Braid
Cross/X
Dark the star
Forms of Forts
Let me tell you about my marvellous god
Two Brief Views of Hell
shadow/ Isaiah
Jump
Kingfisher Carol
Lightning
shadow/ Lintel
What You Said about the Moon
Night Songs
Now in the minute
O
Pear
The History of Quiver
Rewind
The Rose
Scarecrow
The Seasons
shadow/ Shadow
From "Lessons from Television"
These Trees in Particular
Unless and Until
Lost Rules of Usage
Vigil
Weather
Wings
X/Cross
To You and For You
Zero

III THE ELEMENTS
Wrought from the

Recenzii

"The poems in this year's National Book Critic's Circle-winning volume are disarmingly--and deceptively--direct, refracting light in every direction like the little gems that are. Stewart observes the world carefully and comes up with some startling conclusions."

"A very good book. Stewart is a fluid lyricist with an excellent ear, a good sense of pacing, and a gift for making abstract language seem rooted and real."

"A profoundly imagined book, this is one of the most impressive and serious volumes of poetry to come out in the past five years. This is a book worth owning and returning to over many years. . . This book, like all beautifully made things, is likely to last under many weathers, however alert to perishability its author reminds us to be."

"[Stewart's] most fiercely intelligent and ambitious [book] to date. . . . Readers of Columbarium will be rewarded throughout by the poet's remarkable acumen and edifying sense of purpose."

"These poems are gorgeous in themselves, but more gorgeous for the philosophical heft of the fabric they are embroidered on."

"If each niche in this columbarium holds a shadow urn with ashes of our literary and philosophical ancestors, I welcome them as the poet's art endows them with fresh significance. If each is a working of the earth/air/fire/water of our multiple senses, I am more alive by that labor. If each is a pigeonhole in a dovecote, I rejoice at the uniqueness of each dove. I fly afield to feed, returning always to settle into this elegant architecture."

"Throughout the collection, the poet delves into human universals (memory, breath, voice, whisper, loneliness, etc.) while constantly attentive to etymology and word choice . . . . But as in previous work, it is moments of brief and simple aphorism that forcefully summarize the book's project."

"In her wonderfully imaginative fourth poetry book, Columbarium, Susan Stewart invents a type of poem she calls 'shadow georgics.' . . . Stewart's 'shadow georgics' are organized alphabetically by title. The format suggests a parallel between language and nature, the alphabet and the elements. The carpentry is extensive; each of the poems takes a radically different form, and no two are alike. It's as if the endless mutability and metamorphic power of nature find an echo in a series of malleable poetic forms."

"[Columbarium] speaks with an authority garnered not from physical details alone, but from the life of a mind seeking to meet the thoughts of the ages with its own poetic response. When it comes to the mind, the book digs and digs. The book asks for the reader's deepest concentration to meet it, to think with it, but also to hear it sing. In this way, Stewart has wedded the philosophical to the musical, yielding a depth akin to mystical writings."

"Columbarium is cool--but not the burned-out, affectless cool of so much postmodernist art; instead it resurrects a classical or neoclassical coolness, which being tempered, carries with it the force of passion translated into clean, well-made structures. . . . The achievement of Columbarium is that it enters into, and extends, the various poetic traditions--ancient as well as contemporary--that it speaks to with such evident regard."