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Afterword. Joanne Kyger
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John Whalen-Bridge offers responses to the essays included in the volume as well as his own views of Joanne Kyger as a poet in place and time. Among other topics, he discusses her response to the lack of recognition her work received, her relation to American Emersonian values, and her life-long adherence to individual awareness and journal writing. Situating Kyger at the intersection of ecology and Buddhism, Whalen-Bridge describes her as an outrider/outsider, a stance manifested in her resolute poetic independence and in the understated, deeply honest humor that characterizes her work. Viewing the essays as starting points for new considerations of Kyger’s canon, he invites rereadings, reevaluations, and ongoing discussion of this important poet.
Title: Afterword. Joanne Kyger
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John Whalen-Bridge offers responses to the essays included in the volume as well as his own views of Joanne Kyger as a poet in place and time.
Among other topics, he discusses her response to the lack of recognition her work received, her relation to American Emersonian values, and her life-long adherence to individual awareness and journal writing.
Situating Kyger at the intersection of ecology and Buddhism, Whalen-Bridge describes her as an outrider/outsider, a stance manifested in her resolute poetic independence and in the understated, deeply honest humor that characterizes her work.
Viewing the essays as starting points for new considerations of Kyger’s canon, he invites rereadings, reevaluations, and ongoing discussion of this important poet.
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