| Contents |
Introduction: Listening for, Looking for Donne / Judith Scherer Herz -- The History of the Donne and Contemporary Poetry Project / Heather Dubrow -- On the Road with Donne: An Idiosyncratic Pilgrimage / Carl Phillips -- Per Fretum Febris: The Diseased Body in John Donne and Brett Foster / Kimberly Johnson -- Seven Poems / Kimberly Johnson -- The Plexiglass Wall and the Vital Verb / Molly Peacock -- Reading Donne: A Sentimental Journey / Jonathan F. S. Post -- Sonnets 1–14 / Katie Ford -- What’s Done Is Donne and How Can I Find God Now: Poems from The Volcano Sequence / Alicia Ostriker -- Epithalamia and Aubades / Heather Dubrow -- Bird of Fire; The Double Death of Orpheus: Poems from The Ground / Rowan Ricardo Phillips -- Poems: The Sunne Rising, Felinity / Stephen Burt -- Poem: Musing / Stephen Yenser -- Heaney, Donne, and the Boldness of Love / Sean H. McDowell -- Quiver, Chatter, Purple Jinx: On Donne, Translation, and the Psalms / Mark Dow -- Donne and the Reign of Figures / Calvin Bedient -- Turn, Return, Revolve: John Donne's Kinetic Poetics / Joseph Campana. |
| Abstract |
"This collection of poems and essays by both poets and scholars explores how John Donne's writing has entered into the language, the imagination, and the navigation of erotic and spiritual desires and experiences of twentieth- and twenty-first-century writers. The chapters chart a winding path from a description of the Donne and Contemporary Poetry Project at Fordham University to an encounter with the Holy Sonnets to a set of modern holy sonnets and then through the work of a poet who used Donne's Devotions on Emergent Occasions to chart his own dying. There are further poems on sickness and recovery, an essay on Donne and disease that brings in the work of an Australian poet, and several chapters of poems with various Donnean echoes. Of the final four chapters, one places Donne in relation to another poet and one to the Psalms, followed by two chapters on Donne's speech figures and his poetics." -- Publisher's description |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Genre/form | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| ISBN | 3319552996 |
| ISBN | 9783319552996 |
