Why/Why Not
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beauty
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changing perspectives
changing places
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contemporary poetry
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exploration of language
famous poets
female speaker
hamlet
human experience
human thought
intellectual poetry
irreverent
literature students
los angeles
making sense
memory
narrative poetry
phillip marlowe
philosophy
poetic language
poetry
poetry collection
prague
questioning
realism
repetition
thought provoking
touching
women authors
Product details
- ISBN 9780520238114
- Weight: 136g
- Dimensions: 140 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 30 Apr 2003
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Why/Why Not presents a speaker caught in quandaries created by changing perspectives, fervors, and locales. Why do we act one way here and another there; why can't a mind stay made up; why do we hate and love at the same time; why does memory fade or insist; why does the ordinary seem so uncanny? These questions are captured in lines that collide and merge, in irreverent and offhand jibes, and in plaintive repetitions. Why/Why Not moves across a vivid terrain--the stage of Hamlet, Phillip Marlowe's Los Angeles, Prague, paintings and gardens--to push through a tangle of ways to make sense of the world. Martha Ronk's poetic language is that of the everyday slightly skewed, as if pieces of an ordinary sentence were missing. Ronk's poems use the repetitive and the banal to explore ways in which language is intertwined with thought and experience.
Martha Ronk is Irma and Jay Price Professor of English at Occidental College. Among her books are Eyetrouble (1998), State of Mind (1995), and Displeasures of the Table (2001).
