Essay on Pope - Softcover

Blevins, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1963908759 ISBN 13: 9781963908756

Publisher: Spuyten Duyvil Publishing, 2025

Synopsis

Argument


Edward Dorn and an American scholar have agreed to meet in London on the 300th anniversary of Alexander Pope’s birth. Due to the formal nature and current conditions of Poetry and Scholarship, the two miss connections—Dorn participating in ceremonies at Pope’s Tomb; and our narrator the Gloomy Clerk arriving at the Grotto. Antonin Artaud engineers a conceptual Bridge between the oppositions of life or death.

A “Dorn” is a thorn like Pope, in the side.
Bernofsky’s “A thorn gets stuck in an eye.”

Society can carry the form’r
Around for a long while like a thin book;
Eyes require immediate attention.

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About the Authors

t thilleman is the author of some 30 books of poetry and prose, including Three Sea Monsters (Our History of Whose Image) in which journal entries and poetic sequences investigate the legacy of Pound's redactions to Fenollosa's original manuscript version of The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry; Snailhorn (fragments), a 360 poem cycle utilizing vedic transitions in celestial to allegorical articulation; and a novel Gowanus Canal, Hans Knudsen. His literary essay/memoir, Blasted Tower, was issued by Shakespeare & Co./Toad Suck in 2013. The Special Body, a second work of literary comment by Rain Mountain Press (2016). Anatomical Sketches, a longpoem in endless sections is ongoing. thillemantt.com

Richard Lowell Blevins is a poet writing in the tradition of Ezra Pound, H.D., and Robert Duncan, an editor of the Charles Olson-Robert Creeley correspondence, and an award-winning teacher. He was born in Wadsworth, Ohio, in 1950. His undergraduate career was halved by the May 4, 1970, Kent State shootings. He was declared a conscientious objector during the Vietnam War. At Kent State, he studied poetry and the imagination with Duncan and literature of the American West with Edward Dorn. But he has often said that Cleveland book dealer James Lowell was his most formative early influence. He holds degrees from Kent State University (General Studies, 1973), the University of Oregon (MA, English literature, 1976), and the University of Pittsburgh (Ph.D., English literature, 1985; dissertation on the western novels of Will Henry. He has taught literature and poetry writing at the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg since 1978, also serving as Humanities Chair for nine years. He is a winner of a Chancellor's Award, in 1999, the university's highest recognition for teaching. He previously taught at the University of Akron and Kent State.

t thilleman is the author of some 30 books of poetry and prose, including Three Sea Monsters (Our History of Whose Image) in which journal entries and poetic sequences investigate the legacy of Pound's redactions to Fenollosa's original manuscript version of The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry; Snailhorn (fragments), a 360 poem cycle utilizing vedic transitions in celestial to allegorical articulation; and a novel Gowanus Canal, Hans Knudsen. His literary essay/memoir, Blasted Tower, was issued by Shakespeare & Co./Toad Suck in 2013. The Special Body, a second work of literary comment by Rain Mountain Press (2016). Anatomical Sketches, a longpoem in endless sections is ongoing. thillemantt.com

Edition details

• Publisher: Spuyten Duyvil Publishing
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1963908759
• ISBN 13: 9781963908756
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 100