A Call for Poetic Migration in the Time of a Pandemic

*To what extent do place and time determine a poet?To what extent do plague and time determine a poet?*Many ancient civilizations abandoned locales (old cities) and some were even lost during plagues. Their mode of survival: movement, migration, dispersal. Sometimes overseas.It rained the day we ar...

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Hlavní autor: Dick, Jennifer K
Médium: Article ou chapitre numérique
Jazyk:Anglais
Vydáno: Angles 2024
On-line přístup:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Shrnutí:*To what extent do place and time determine a poet?To what extent do plague and time determine a poet?*Many ancient civilizations abandoned locales (old cities) and some were even lost during plagues. Their mode of survival: movement, migration, dispersal. Sometimes overseas.It rained the day we arrived.And I have rowed the harbor since, out the window of Johnny’s Candy Kitchen, through that glass and rain through which I looked the first time I saw the sea. (Olson 1951: 259-260)While whole ...