John Donne and Contemporary Poetry : Essays and Poems on Donne's Influence

This collection of poems and essays by both poets and scholars explores how John Donne’s writing has entered into the language, the imagination, and the navigation of erotic and spiritual desires and experiences of twentieth- and twenty-first-century writers. The chapters chart a winding path from a description of the Donne and Contemporary Poetry Project at Fordham University to an encounter with the __Holy Sonnets__ to a set of modern holy sonnets and then through the work of a poet who used Donne’s __Devotions on Emergent Occasions__ to chart his own dying. There are further poems on sickness and recovery, an essay on Donne and disease that brings in the work of an Australian poet, and several chapters of poems with various Donnean echoes. Of the final four chapters, one places Donne in relation to another poet and one to the Psalms, followed by two chapters on Donne’s speech figures and his poetics. Contents 6 Editor and Contributors 8 List of Figures 12 Introduction: Listening for, Looking for Donne 13 The History of the Donne and Contemporary Poetry Project 20 On the Road with Donne: An Idiosyncratic Pilgrimage 26 Per Fretum Febris: The Diseased Body in John Donne and Brett Foster 39 Seven Poems 57 The Story of My Calamities 57 A Nocturnall upon Saint Chuck Yeager’s Day 58 Goodfriday 59 Ode on My Appendix 60 Ode on My Episiotomy 61 A Benediction: On the Tulpenwoede ofSeventeenth-Century Holland 61 The Plexiglass Wall and the Vital Verb 64 Donne and the Vital Verb 65 Reading Donne: A Sentimental Journey 70 Sonnets 1–14 83 What’s Done Is Donne and How Can I Find God Now: Poems from The Volcano Sequence 92 Psalm 93 Dialogue 95 Fire 96 During the Bombing of Kosovo 97 Question and Answer 99 On a Good Day 100 The Shekhinah as Exile 101 The Shekhinah as Amnesiac 102 The Yearning 102 The Poet in Me Says 103 I Decide to Call You Being 104 Psalm 105 Psalm 105 Psalm 106 Psalm 106 Seasonal 107 Epithalamia and Aubades 109 Bird of Fire; The Double Death of Orpheus: Poems from The Ground 115 Bird of Fire 115 The Double Death of Orpheus 116 Poems: The Sunne Rising, Felinity 119 The Sunne Rising 119 Felinity 120 Poem: Musing 122 Donne’s Presence 124 Heaney, Donne, and the Boldness of Love 127 Quiver, Chatter, Purple Jinx: On Donne, Translation, and the Psalms 149 Re-Revealing 154 Out in the Open 160 Donne and the Reign of Figures 174 Turn, Return, Revolve: John Donne’s Kinetic Poetics 199 Index 218 Front Matter ....Pages i-xiii Introduction: Listening for, Looking for Donne (Judith Scherer Herz)....Pages 1-7 The History of the Donne and Contemporary Poetry Project (Heather Dubrow)....Pages 9-14 On the Road with Donne: An Idiosyncratic Pilgrimage (Carl Phillips)....Pages 15-27 Per Fretum Febris: The Diseased Body in John Donne and Brett Foster (Kimberly Johnson)....Pages 29-46 Seven Poems (Kimberly Johnson)....Pages 47-53 The Plexiglass Wall and the Vital Verb (Molly Peacock)....Pages 55-60 Reading Donne: A Sentimental Journey (Jonathan F S Post)....Pages 61-73 Sonnets 1–14 (Katie Ford)....Pages 75-83 What’s Done Is Donne and How Can I Find God Now: Poems from The Volcano Sequence (Alicia Ostriker)....Pages 85-101 Epithalamia and Aubades (Heather Dubrow)....Pages 103-108 Bird of Fire; The Double Death of Orpheus: Poems from The Ground (Rowan Ricardo Phillips)....Pages 109-112 Poems: The Sunne Rising, Felinity (Stephen Burt)....Pages 113-115 Poem: Musing (Stephen Yenser)....Pages 117-121 Heaney, Donne, and the Boldness of Love (Sean H. McDowell)....Pages 123-144 Quiver, Chatter, Purple Jinx: On Donne, Translation, and the Psalms (Mark Dow)....Pages 145-169 Donne and the Reign of Figures (Calvin Bedient)....Pages 171-195 Turn, Return, Revolve: John Donne’s Kinetic Poetics (Joseph Campana)....Pages 197-215 Back Matter ....Pages 217-221 "This collection of poems and essays by both poets and scholars explores how John Donne's writing has entered into the language, the imagination, and the navigation of erotic and spiritual desires and experiences of twentieth- and twenty-first-century writers. The chapters chart a winding path from a description of the Donne and Contemporary Poetry Project at Fordham University to an encounter with the Holy Sonnets to a set of modern holy sonnets and then through the work of a poet who used Donne's Devotions on Emergent Occasions to chart his own dying. There are further poems on sickness and recovery, an essay on Donne and disease that brings in the work of an Australian poet, and several chapters of poems with various Donnean echoes. Of the final four chapters, one places Donne in relation to another poet and one to the Psalms, followed by two chapters on Donne's speech figures and his poetics."--Publisher's description Annotation This collection of poems and essays by both poets and scholars explores how John Donne's writing has entered into the language, the imagination, and the navigation of erotic and spiritual desires and experiences of 20th and 21st century writers. The chapters chart a winding path from a description of the Donne and Contemporary Poetry Project at Fordham University to an encounter with the Holy Sonnets to a set of modern holy sonnets and then through the work of a poet who used Donne's Devotions on Emergent Occasions to chart his own dying. There are further poems on sickness and recovery, an essay on Donne and disease that brings in the work of an Australian poet, and several chapters of poems with various Donnean echoes Judith Scherer Herz, Editor. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.