The Open Light

Description

The Open Light: Poets from Notre Dame, 1991–2008 celebrates the distinction and diversity of poets associated with the university during these nearly two decades. This anthology is a companion volume to James Walton's earlier collection, The Space Between: Poets from Notre Dame, 1950–1990. The twenty-four poets represented in The Open Light range from National Endowment for the Arts Award–winner Beth Ann Fennelly, who received her undergraduate degree from Notre Dame, to the Nobel Prize nominee Bei Dao, who taught as a visiting professor at Notre Dame between 2005 and 2007. All have been students at Notre Dame, members of the faculty, or both. Each has published at least one volume of poetry.

As evidenced by the founding of Notre Dame's Creative Writing Program in 1991, creative writing has thrived over the years and grown more essential to the intellectual identity and artistic ambitions of the university. Notre Dame's M.F.A. graduates, who have published poetry collections and fiction with both commercial publishers and independent presses, have garnered considerable praise from the literary establishment. In the preface to this anthology, Orlando Ricardo Menes presents a brief historical account of poetry at Notre Dame since 1991, emphasizing the remarkable range of talent and accomplishment of its poets, and the establishment of both The Notre Dame Review and the Ernest Sandeen Poetry Prize. The plethora of voices included in this collection and the poems themselves provide a rich and vibrant legacy of poetry at Notre Dame.

Contributors: Francisco Aragón, Robert Archambeau, Bei Dao, Karni Pal Bhati, Kimberly M. Blaeser, Jenny Boully, Jacque Vaught Brogan, Stacy Cartledge, Michael Coffey, Seamus Deane, Joe Francis Doerr, Kevin Ducey, Cornelius Eady, Beth Ann Fennelly, Kevin Hart, Mary Kathleen Hawley, Joyelle McSweeney, Orlando Ricardo Menes, Thomas O'Grady, John Phillip Santos, Michael Smith, Anthony Walton, Henry Weinfield, and John Wilkinson.

Sujets

• Themes
• Subjects
• John Phillip Santos
• Kevin Hart
• Joyelle McSweeney
• The Space Between
• Robert Archambeau
• Kimberly M. Blaeser
• Cornelius Eady
• Seamus Deane
• Jenny Boully
• Anthony Walton
• Notre Dame
• University of Notre Dame
• Poetry
• Places
• Bei Dao
• Michael Smith

Informations

• Publié par: University of Notre Dame Press
• Date de parution: 01 août 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 1
• EAN13: 9780268086817
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

Extrait

Henry WeinIeld, and John Wilkinson.

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The Open Light

The Open Light

Poets from Notre Dame, 1991–2008

 E d I t E d b y O r l a n D O r i c a r D O M e n e S

The Open Light

The Open Light Poets from Notre Dame, 1991–2008

Edited by O R L A N D O R I C A R D O M E N E S

University of Notre Dame Press

Notre Dame, Indiana

Copyright © 2011 by University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, Indiana 46556 www.undpress.nd.edu All Rights Reserved

Manufactured in the United States of America

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

The open light : poets from Notre Dame, 1991–2008 / edited by Orlando RicardoMenes. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN-13: 978-0-268-03521-1 (pbk. : alk. paper) ISBN-10: 0-268-03521-0 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. American poetry—Indiana—Notre Dame. 2. University of Notre Dame. I. Menes, Orlando Ricardo. PS572.N68O74 2011 811'.6080977289—dc20 2010049967

This book was printed on recycled paper.

for my colleagues

John Matthias and Sonia Gernes

Preface Acknowledgments

F R A N C I S C O A R A G Ó N Madrid in July February Snow Winter Sun Tricycles

Contents

R O B E RT A R C H A M B E AU Two Short Films Turkish Engraving Misremembering Szymborska Imitations and Collage: from the Poems of Blas de Otero

B E I D A O February Showing Up Old Places Borders

K A R N I PA L B H AT I Books Theology A Hike on Bikes Dwellings

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K I M B E R LY M . B L A E S E R Ice Tricksters and Shadow Stories On the Way to the Chicago Pow-Wow Absentee Indians March 1998: Seeking Solace

J E N N Y B O U L LY Selected footnotes fromThe Body

J A C Q U E VAU G H T B R O G A N Window Stable fromNotes from the Body

S TA C Y C A RT L E D G E inertia divine comedy evanescent codex (a discourse)

M I C H A E L C O F F E Y Lawrentian A Fact of Language Melville on the Beach Dad’s Shoes Ideas of Order

S E A M U S D E A N E Smoke Signals in Oregon Migration Shelter History Lessons

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J O E F R A N C I S D O E R R January Thaw Star-crossed Sestina for the Birds A Piece of September

K E V I N D U C E Y Dien Bien Phu Homo Habilis: The Tool-Maker Heretic Lamentations Wim Wenders Versus the Wolf Man

C O R N E L I U S E A D Y Miss Johnson Dances for the First Time The Way You Do the Things You Do The Supremes My Mother’s Blues about the Numbers Dread Why Was I Born? A Duet between John Coltrane and Kenny Burrell My Face

B E T H A N N F E N N E L LY Poem Not to Be Read at Your Wedding Bite Me Latching On, Falling Off

K E V I N H A RT Praying for the Dead A Silver Crucifix on My Desk Making a Rat My Mother’s Brisbane The Word

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