The Art of Recklessness: Poetry as Assertive Force and

The Art of Recklessness: Poetry as Assertive Force and Contradiction

In The Art of Recklessness, Dean Young's sprawling and subversive first book of prose on poetry, imagination swerves into primitivism and surrealism and finally toward empathy. How can recklessness guide the poet, the artist, and the reader into art, and how can it excite in us a sort of wild receptivity, beyond craft? "Poetry is not a discipline," Young writes. "It is a hunger, a revolt, a drive, a mash note, a fright, a tantrum, a grief, a hoax, a debacle, an application, an affect . . ."
Country USA
Brand Graywolf Press
Manufacturer Graywolf Press
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9781555975623
ReleaseDate 2010-07-20
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781555975623

The Art of Recklessness: Poetry as Assertive Force and Contradiction