What Persists

Selected Essays on Poetry from The Georgia Review, 1988-2014

By: Judith Kitchen, Stephen Corey (Editor)

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What Persists contains eighteen of the nearly fifty essays on poetry that Judith Kitchen published in The Georgia Review over a twenty-five-year span. Coming at the genre from every possible angle, this celebrated critic discusses work by older and younger poets, most American but some foreign, and many of whom were not yet part of the contemporary canon. Her essays reveal a cultural history from the dismantling of the Berlin Wall, through 9/11 and the Iraq War, and move into today's political climate. They chronicle personal interests while they also make note of what was happening in contemporary poetry by revealing overall changes of taste, both in content and in the use of craft. Over time, they fashion a comprehensive overview of the contemporary literary scene. At its best, What Persists shows what a wide range of poetry is being written'by women, men, poets who celebrate their ethnicity, poets who show a fierce individualism, poets whose careers have soared, promising poets whose work has all but disappeared.

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Gravity's Rainbow, Domination and Freedom is a seminal study of Pynchon's most influential text, which not only situates the novel in the wider cultural milieu of its time of production and hereby elucidates its narrative and political subtexts, but it also helps Pynchon novices to navigate this moloch--one can indeed feel the authors' longtime experience with teaching the novel and therefore not ending up in constructing a narrow cave that only allows experts in.--Sebastian Huber "Amerikastudien/American Studies"
As assembled here these writings become a brilliant tour of the last twenty-five years of American poetry, not systematic, orderly, or complete, but strikingly capacious and wide ranging. Kitchen is an extraordinary guide to these writers and texts, both the famous and the less familiar. What Persists is both a significant contribution to American poetry criticism and a lasting tribute to one of our best recent critics.--Jeff Gundy "author of Somewhere near Defiance"

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