TY  - BOOK
AU  - Opal, Anthony
AB  - ACTION — as in begin, genesis, motion — is a collection of poems ultimately concerned with form, those lines drawn in the sand that give way to the profanity of the holy, the holiness of the profane. Throughout ACTION, Opal engages the constraints inherent to seemingly fixed forms. From living with rheumatoid arthritis, to feeling for the edges of a sonnet tradition, to wrestling with the tenets of historical theology, this collection demonstrates that the only way to honestly submit to a form is to rage against it. However, to assume that this rage is not a kind of explosive joy—a Barthesian jouissance—would be to miss the point of poems that Dean Young has described as “radiant affirmations of life and art.”
DO  - 10.21983/P3.0083.1.00
ID  - OAPEN ID: 1004558
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 945783210
KW  - poetry
KW  - sonnet
KW  - formalism
KW  - waxwings
KW  - monarchy
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/7c8cd21b-8b76-4acb-a5c5-4ebd8bd79fd3/1004558.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/25537
PB  - punctum books
PP  - Brooklyn, NY
PY  - 2014
SN  - 9780692335543
TI  - Action [poems]null
ER  - 
