Machine generated contents note: "Once More, the Round": Roethke's Last Word / 44. "Open House": Prying and Potential in an Early Poem / William Barillas. 2. "To My Sister" / William Heyen -- 3. "Beneath an Undivided Sky": Environmental Disorder and Human Passivity in "Interlude" / Kristin M. Distel -- 4. "Sharper on the Ear": "The Light Comes Brighter" and the Subtle Phenomena of Place / Rod Phillips -- 5. Smart Like Auden? "Lull" and "September 1, 1939" / Patrick Gill -- 6. Ironic Quest in "Highway: Michigan" / Ronald Primeau -- 7. Movement through Space, Sound, and Time in "Night Journey" / Marcel Inhoff -- The Lost Son and Other Poems (1948) -- 8. "Cuttings" and "Cuttings (later)": Roethke's Minute Carnivals / Michael Hinds -- 9. All the Small, Unlovely Things: "Root Cellar" / John Rohrkemper -- 10. Locating the Poet in "Weed Puller" / Lyn Coffin -- 11. "Orchids": Undomesticating the Greenhouse / Brooke Horvath -- 12. "Moss-Gathering" and Roethke's Romantic Child of Nature / Marc Malandra -- 13. The Storm of the Mind vs. Family and Machine in "Big Wind" / Russell Brickey -- 14. "Long Days under the Sloped Glass": Greenhouse Memories in "Transplanting" / Carrie Duke -- 15. "Frau Bauman, Frau Schmidt, and Frau Schwartze" and the Sleeping Beauty Tale / Laura Duncan -- 16. Meter in "My Papa's Waltz" / William Barillas -- 17. Syntax and Diction in "Dolor" / Luke Brekke -- 18. Imagery and Abstraction in "Night Crow" / Sarah Kathryn Moore -- 19. "The Lost Son": An Emotional Journey through the Landscapes of Loss / Borja Aguilo Obrador -- 20. Respite for the Lost Son: "A Field of Light" / Jeffrey Clapp -- Praise to the End! (1951) -- 21. Homegrown Cosmologies: Animism and Elegy in "Where Knock Is Open Wide" / David Wojahn -- 22. "Give Way, Ye Gates" and Roethke's Praise to the End! Sequence / Peter Balakian -- The Waking (1953) -- 23. "The Visitant" / Camille Paglia -- 24. "Elegy for Jane": The Nature of Grief / David Radavich -- 25. Dancing "The Dance": Roethke's Poetics of Appropriation / Adam Putz -- 26. Subduing Fear in "The Waking" / Frank J. Kearful -- Words for the Wind (1958) -- 27. Love, Selfhood, and Sublimation in "Words for the Wind" / Andrew David King -- 28. Moving Circles in "I Knew a Woman" / Jay Parini -- 29. "First Meditation" and Roethke's Career / Don Bogen -- I Am! Says the Lamb (1961) -- 30. A Few Thousand Words on Theodore Roethke, Children's Poetry, and Three Poems Concerning Two Turtles (One of Whom Is Named Myrtle) / Joseph T. Thomas Jr. -- The Far Field (1964) -- 31. "The Longing": Alienation, Place, and the Desire for Home / Katharine Bubel -- 32. Spirit, Self, and Shorebirds: The Pacific Pastoral of "Meditation at Oyster River" / Nicholas Bradley -- 33. "Journey to the Interior," "The Longing," and the Search for a Definitive Text / Neal Bowers -- 34. Mnetha in "The Long Waters" / John J. Mckenna -- 35. The Ecological Vision of "The Far Field" / Bernard Quetchenbach -- 36. Nature Mysticism in "The Rose" / Edward Morin -- 37. "The Abyss": Finding the Next Life in This One / Trenton Hickman -- 38. "Otto": An Insight into Roethke's Poetic Vision / Jeff Vande Zande -- 39. "The Meadow Mouse": A Poem of Compassion / Norman Chaney -- 40. The Zoopoetics of "The Pike" / Aaron M. Moe -- 41. Roethke's Dark Society: Revisiting "In a Dark Time" / Walter Kalaidjian -- 42. "I Am Not Yet Undone": Navigating the Journey from Life to Death in "Infirmity" / Laura Gill -- 43. Symbolism and the Mystic's Way in "The Tree, the Bird" / Christopher Giroux -- 44. "Once More, the Round": Roethke's Last Word / William Barillas.
Summary:
"This volume is the first to reconsider Roethke's work in terms of the expanded critical approaches to literature that have emerged since his death in 1963. The forty-four contributors include highly respected literary scholars, critics, and writers, such as Peter Balakian, Camille Paglia, Jay Parini, and David Wojahn, who collectively make a case for Roethke's poetry as a complete, unified, and evolving body of work. The accessible essays employ a number of approaches, including formalism, ecocriticism, reader-response, and feminist critique to explicate the poetics, themes, and the biographical, historical, cultural, and literary contexts of Roethke's work"-- Provided by publisher.
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