Line Break: Poetry as Social Practice - Softcover

Scully, James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0941920089 ISBN 13: 9780941920087

Publisher: Bay Press,U.S., 1988

Synopsis

Originally published: Seattle, WA: Bay Press, [1988].

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Review

"James Scully's essays, like his poems, refuse to soothe or simplify, to shortchange either poetry or the imperative for social revolution. His fiercely demystifying intelligence is grounded in hope and realism for poetry in itself along with other forms of dissident engagement."
Adrienne Rich
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"Scully's brilliance is mesmerizing, radicalizing, a power plant producing synapses in the 'mind politic' that may well allow Americans, finally, to write and discourse with our kind around the globe. If American poets have a role to play in preserving free speech in the 21st century, this book belongs in our every backpack."
Linda McCarriston
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""Line Break" is a powerful and internally consistent argument that literature, that poetry in particular, can and must fulfill its ancient duty to register and judge the conduct of human beings. "Line Break" extrapolates and updates Plato: a poem that does not examine life critically is not worth writing."
Robert Bagg"

"James Scully's essays, like his poems, refuse to soothe or simplify, to shortchange either poetry or the imperative for social revolution. His fiercely demystifying intelligence is grounded in hope and realism for poetry in itself along with other forms of dissident engagement."
--Adrienne Rich

"Scully's brilliance is mesmerizing, radicalizing, a power plant producing synapses in the 'mind politic' that may well allow Americans, finally, to write and discourse with our kind around the globe. If American poets have a role to play in preserving free speech in the 21st century, this book belongs in our every backpack."
--Linda McCarriston

"Line Break is a powerful and internally consistent argument that literature, that poetry in particular, can and must fulfill its ancient duty to register and judge the conduct of human beings. Line Break extrapolates and updates Plato: a poem that does not examine life critically is not worth writing."
--Robert Bagg

About the Author

For many years, James Scully, along with others, quietly radicalized American poetry--in theory and in practice, in how it is lived as well as in how it is written. He was born in New Haven, CT. Professor Emeritus of the University of Connecticut, he has won numerous honors, including a Lamont Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He lives in San Francisco.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bay Press,U.S.
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0941920089
• ISBN 13: 9780941920087
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 149