Feminist literary criticism has been able to discuss the significance of a woman writer's gender to her literary production most propitiously by analyzing its representation of gender and of gender issues. But for women writers, such as Marianne Moore, who refuse to make gender a central subject of their writing, this approach offers limited insight. And yet, gender is a crucial determination of Moore's poetic production, and much of her poetry, especially her earlier poetry, was a creative, and feminist, response to that determination.
Omissions Are Not Accidents argues that the aesthetic achievement of Moore's poetry can better be appreciated and judged by considering how gender structures her work. By attending to Moore's position as a woman within her culture and within language, Heuving has established a comprehensive explanation of the chronological development of her innovative writing.

Omissions Are Not Accidents: Gender in the Art of Marianne Moore

Literature & Fiction

Heuving, Jeanne

United States

Wayne State Univ Pr

The Transmutation of Love and Avant-Garde Poetics is a probing examination of how the writing of sexual love undergoes a radical revision by avant-garde poets in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Today, the exploration of love by poets―long a fixture of Western poetic tradition―is thought to be in decline, with love itself understood to be a mere ideological overlay for the more “real” entities of physical sex and desire. In The Transmutation of Love and Avant-Garde Poetics, Jeanne Heuving claims that a key achievement of poetry by Ezra Pound, H.D., Robert Duncan, Kathleen Fraser, Nathaniel Mackey, and others lies significantly in their engagement with the synergistic relations between being in love and writing love. These poets, she argues, have traded the clichéd lover of yore for impersonal or posthuman poetic speakers that sustain the gloire and mystery of love poetry of prior centuries. As Robert Duncan writes, “There is a love in which we are outcast and vagabond from what we are that we call ‘falling in love.’” Heuving claims that this writing of love is defining for avant-garde poetics, identifying how such important discoveries as Pound’s and H.D.’s Imagism, Pound’s Cantos, and Duncan’s “open field poetics” are derived through their changed writing of love. She draws attention to how the prevailing concept of language as material is inadequate to the ways these poets also engage language as a medium―as a conduit―enabling them to address love afresh in a time defined through preoccupations with sexuality. They engage love as immanent and change it through a writing that acts on itself. The Transmutation of Love and Avant-Garde Poetics ascribes the waning of love poetry to its problematic form: a genre in which empowered poetic speakers constitute their speech through the objectification of comparatively disempowered subjects, or beloveds. Refusing this pervasive practice, the poets she highlights reject the delimiting, one-sided tradition of masculine lovers and passive feminine beloveds; instead, they create a more nuanced, dynamic poetics of ecstatic exploration, what Heuving calls “projective love” and “libidinized field poetics,” a formally innovative poetry, in which one perception leads directly to the next and all aspects of a poem are generative of meaning.

The Transmutation of Love and Avant-Garde Poetics (Modern and Contemporary Poetics)

History & Criticism

University Alabama Press

Poetry. Jeanne Heuving is a writer and critic whose cross genre work seeks to engage oblique aspects of existence and to alter conventional understanding. An exploration of being and sex, excitement and inscription, INCAPACITY engages a terrain where lush and exacting scenes fall into dereliction and disrepair. "Engaging the potential of post-patriarchal narrative and subjectivity, yet inside women's dilemmas in our time, Jeanne Heuving writes a saturated, paradoxical, pensive, and intense book on transformative seismic events and on misty envelopments that link inside and out like moebius loop"--Rachel Blau Duplessis.

Incapacity

Poetry

Chiasmus Press

Poetry. "The score is the written -- a list of appropriated sources, the notes, is listed -- and Jeanne Heuving plays upon, plays under, her instrument, the pen with which she begins, dragging it across the page. Weaving together real and speculative histories of plants, dyes, and papyrus, she creates a loose tapestry of septets that accumulate into ruminations on the network of histories binding transatlantic seafaring, trade, colonialism, agriculture, and slavery. MOOD INDIGO reminds us that beauty and cruelty, human ingenuity and human barbarity, are inextricably linked. We love the aboveground seen: MOOD INDIGO asks us to consider those invisible roots beneath the field."--Tyrone Williams

Mood Indigo

selva oscura press

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Omissions Are Not Accidents: Gender in the Art of Marianne Moore

The Transmutation of Love and Avant-Garde Poetics (Modern and Contemporary Poetics)

Incapacity

Mood Indigo