Reviews for Discovery and Reminiscence: Essays on the Poetry of Mona Van Duyn

The average rating for Discovery and Reminiscence: Essays on the Poetry of Mona Van Duyn based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-05-10 00:00:00 Jordan Veelle 811.54 V246b 1998

Review # 2 was written on 2009-10-27 00:00:00 James Jansma Emancipating Pragmatism uncovers the hidden root structure that connects Ralph Waldo Emerson to Harryette Mullen via figures as dazzlingly diverse as John Dewey, Amiri Baraka, Kenneth Burke, Ornette Coleman, William Carlos Williams, Paul Goodman, Frank O'Hara, William James, Susan Howe, and Ralph W. Ellison. What Magee sees as the link between them is a practice he calls "democratic symbolic action": an insistence that the meaning of democracy--its yen for heterogeneity, improvisation, and collaborative experiment--be enacted at the level of the sentence. Through a lucid riff on the pragmatist tradition, he reminds us that the search for a relationship between aesthetic practice and political action so central to contemporary poetics has been an ongoing obsession in American letters since at least the 1850s.