The Loss of the Bride in Heads of the Town and the Reclamation of the Text
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11327653 |
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| Authors | John Granger (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1977 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 145 |
| Publication date | 1977-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | boundary 2 (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0190-3659 • E-ISSN: 1527-2141 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/302474 |
| OpenAlex | W2323217034 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 1 |
In the Vancouver Lectures, Jack Spicer states an analogy that sets the three books of Heads of the Town up to the Aether1 beside the three cantica of Dante's Divine Comedy. As the earlier imagery is returned and recast, the spiritual conditions of hell, purgatory, and heaven become conditions of language: the poetic, to name them, and to move backwards already, in A Textbook of Poetry, the prosaic in A Fake Novel about the Life of Arthur Rimbaud, and in Homage to Creeley, the condition of itself. Because these conditions of have marked the contemporary condition of self, what structure we are given in Heads of the Town is best held in a relationship of the speaking voice to the spoken poem and of both to the unspoken and unspeakable that complete them. If we have become distant from the old vocabulary of God and Hell and Paradise it has been to return to the sentences in which they appeared (Paz: language now occupies the place once occupied by the gods2). And it has been to return to the subject that placed itself as an I within them
Archaeology · Art · Bride · Land reclamation · Visual arts · French Literature and Poetry · History · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Poetry Analysis and Criticism
| Highly cited | No |
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