Polysituatedness : a Poetics of Displacement.
John Kinsella is one of the pre-eminent poets writing today; Polysituatedness provides a sequel to his critical work Disclosed Poetics. If offers an approach to creating poems and literary texts constituted by multiple places, considering the relationships that occur between place, individual and th...
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2016
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Polysituatedness; Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgements; Preface/synopsis; A polysituated ode with occasional, demi-Boustrophedon; 1 On place itself; A personal introduction on practice and context including someexternal considerations of 'place'; Polysituated(ness): international regionalism; Agoras; Redefining or maybe replacing 'place': towards a theology ofpresence?Consequences and responsibility; Application; For beauty's sake; Overhearing: poetics of place with brief reference toJack Davis's poetry; Concretion and damage: a pre-manifesto (though written after).
- De-mapping
- Jam Tree Gully 4 Concretions Manifesto 1Concreted protest poem against bauxite mine at Morangup; Further Jam Tree Gully concretions; Near Goomalling: Oak Park concretions; Living with Moondyne Joe: points de repère; 2 Where we are; A polysituated manifest (with an incomplete circle 'o'), on Jack Davis, Tennyson and Socrates; 3 Displaced acts of writing; Displaced acts of writing; Anti-'craft' in the context of Western capitalist cultures; A brief look at the avant-garde and 'Western' spirituality; Rereading; The eternal work-in-progress; I'll tell you a story.
- Uses of knowledge/data/detail in writing and readingWhere I sit in the process: working with Ali Alizadeh to producean anthology of Persian poetry; Auguste Lacaussade; On the track of desiring and absence: a letter to McKenzie Warkon his email correspondence with Kathy Acker; 4 Sublimated displacements in read texts; On sublimated displacements in read texts (including a gesturetowards a thread in the definition of 'displacement'); A rage for verse: the case for Charles Walker as the author ofthe first volume of verse published in Western Australia(1856).
- Further reconstruction: coda or prologue?Henry Lawson: national displacements; On Peter Carey's True History of the Kelly Gang; The collapse of space: on Lisa Gorton's The Life of Houses; Inevitability and searching in John Mateer's Elsewhere; Tales of place: Barbara Temperton's Southern Edge; On Contemporary Asian Australian Poets; On the poetry of Janet McAdams; 5 Emplacement; Corthna, Carraiglea, Anchor Lodge
- from Schull Journals; More from a Schull Journal; On the trauma of writing 'Seeing' and the urge to createa poem after journeying out on the Mizen.
- Further extracts from a Schull JournalOn painting and poetry; Also from a Schull Journal; More 'ways of seeing; From a Schull Journal; Terms and conditions of writing place?; Irredentism; Being back: place, storage, waste and (un)belonging; Storage; From storage towards waste; Finding belonging?; The place of reading: the geographical context of (re)readingThe Jindyworobaks and self
- from Schull to an imaginaryAustralia; Harvesting the grass (from a Schull Journal); Last entries in Volume Three of a Schull Journal; Coda: changing route (October 2015); 6 Weirding place/Anti-bucolic.
- 'Below the surface-stream, shallow and light'
- transferences ofweirding place.
