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Held by Form: Feminism, Poetics, Critical Practice
Paperback
Series: Thinking Literature
Literary CriticismPoetry Criticism
ISBN13: 9780226854939
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: Jan 21 2027
Pages: 224
Weight: 1.00
Language: English
How contemporary poetry illuminates the workings--and struggles--of commitment in feminism.
In this lucid and vigorous defense of poetics for feminism, Anna Moser situates the practice of contemporary poetry in an exploratory dialogue with the work of philosophical, critical, and historical thinkers--placing Denise Riley in conversation with Judith Butler, Lyn Hejinian with Hannah Arendt, m. nourbeSe philip with Saidiya Hartman, and Susan Howe with Emily Dickinson.
Moser's central theme is these poets' questioning, agonistic commitment to feminism. What, the book asks, does it mean to be committed? How does such a commitment materialize? What are its consequences? What does it mean not to take for granted an affiliation like feminist (or even woman), but rather to involve one's art in probing its historical formations, present conditions, and future trajectories? Moser explores both the risks and possibilities of making art in this equivocal condition. She reveals that the poetry of certain contemporary writers not only unfolds within this space of agonistic commitment, but that, in doing so, it offers an important contribution to feminist thinking. Moser's book also shows that while form is a constraint that limits these poets' freedom, it also holds them in a more sustaining sense, allowing something belatedly and imperfectly to be said.
In dialogue with feminist political theory, philosophy, historiography, and aesthetics, Held by Form reveals poetics as a unique mode of critical practice: one that models relations of care and collectivity, refigures inherited forms in ways that contest their hierarchies of value, and responds with generosity and openness to the complexities of living in gender.
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