In This Wild Water: The Suppressed Poems of Robinson Jeffers by James Shebl

1977 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-69
Author(s):  
Frederic I. Carpenter
Keyword(s):  
Robinson Jeffers

The Origins of the Arabic Prose Poem

2018 ◽  
pp. 121-146
Author(s):  
Robyn Creswell
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Prose Poem ◽  
Saint John ◽  
Robinson Jeffers

This chapter considers the origins of Arabic prose poem which, as understood by the Beiruti modernists, seemed to arise from an act of auscultation, or attention to interior rhythms. But how do these rhythms synchronize with the dynamism of modernity? How does the private music of the prose poem accord with what Adonis calls “the rhythm of our new life, a rhythm that renews itself in every instant”? Does the qasidat al-nathr originate abroad, or does it well up from the self? Although the Shi'r poets often translated foreign authors such as Robinson Jeffers and Saint-John Perse as though they belonged to a hoary native tradition, the Arab modernists' most common way of harmonizing these sources is to suppose a subject, namely “man,” who serves as a figure of mediation, translating from one side of this caesura to the other.

Robinson Jeffers Today: Beyond Good and Beneath Evil

1977 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 86
Author(s):  
Frederic I. Carpenter
Keyword(s):  
Robinson Jeffers
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