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Contributors
Darius
Gabriel Bugarin
Dick
Credit
Elizabeth
Dandy
Jean-Philippe Guéant
Joseph
Aprile
Marie
Wadsworth
Naoya
Shibasawa
Santosh
Kumar
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The
Edge of the Metaphor
Edited
By: Dr.
Santosh Kumar Binding: Paperback (pp:
158) ISBN: 81-901366-7-4 Availability: In
Stock (Ships within 1 to 2 days) Publisher:
Cyberwit.net, Allahabad, India Pub. Date:
2004 Condition: New
Description:
The
Edge of the Metaphor includes
mainly the poets, who through poetic symbols (The
French poets are leaders in such type of poetry),
visionary trances and metaphors are successful in
confronting the inner and external realities.
These poets reveal that poetry is more than common
metaphor and analogies, and their poems reach
deeper. We will not find in The Edge of the
Metaphor poems, which are full of monotonous
dreams and vague fancies. Here are some
extraordinary compositions revealing the bitter
truth and realities of the new millennium.
Dryden
(1631-1700) pointed out: "There may be too great
a likeness, as the most skilful painters affirm,
that there may be too near a resemblance in a
picture; to take every lineament and feature, is
not to make an excellent piece; but to heighten
the beauties of some part, and hide the
deformities of the rest.the employment of a poet
is like that of a curious gunsmith, or watchmaker;
the iron or silver is not his own, but they are
the least part of that which gives the value; the
price lies wholly in the workmanship." This wise
observation by one of the greatest English critics
proves that a wise use of metaphor and
'workmanship' is indispensable for writing
great poems.
Pound
had recognized the significance of new inventive
language and forms:
It
was you who broke the new wood.
Now
is a time for carving.
We
have one sap and one root.
'The
Pact', Lustra (1915)
After 1950, a new generation of poets in
America created a new system of ideas in
innovative style, which was quite different from
the works of Williams, Stevens, Robert Lowell,
Roethke and Sylvia Plath. Some of these poets are
Olson, Duncan,Creeley, Oppenheimer, Jonathan
Williams, William Everson, Jack Spicer,
Ferlinghetti, Ginsberg, John Ashberry, Barbara
Guest, Snyder, etc. Moreover, we see a number of
great women poets in USA. This is quite evident
after perusing The World Split Open (1974),
edited by Louise Bernikow. The following lines
convey the universal truth:
What
would happen if one woman told the truth about her
life?
The
world would split open.
-Muriel
Rukeyser, The Collected Poems (1979).
The
poets selected for The Edge of the Metaphor compel
our admiration, because instead of employing the
conventional poetic style these artists write in
the language of common speech, a subtle style
showing the exact words, and discarding ornamental
phraseology. The use of the 'spoken word'
provides a significant edge to image and metaphor.
"In literature, partly from the lack of that
spoken word which knits us to the
normal man, we have lost in personality, in
our delight in the whole man-blood, imagination,
intellect, running together" (W. B. Yeats).
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