John Donne and Contemporary Poetry Essays and Poems

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 writ

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Judith Scherer Herz

John Donne and Contemporary Poetry

Judith Scherer Herz Editor

John Donne and Contemporary Poetry Essays and Poems

Editor Judith Scherer Herz Concordia University Montreal, QC Canada

ISBN 978-3-319-55299-6 ISBN 978-3-319-55300-9  (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-55300-9 Library of Congress Control Number: 2017937709 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Cover credit: Getty Images/nicoolay Printed on acid-free paper This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Springer International Publishing AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland

To the members of the John Donne Society “zealously my Muse doth all salute thee.” for “your integritie, friendship, and confidence.”

Contents

Introduction: Listening for, Looking for Donne  1 Judith Scherer Herz The History of the Donne and Contemporary Poetry Project  9 Heather Dubrow On the Road with Donne: An Idiosyncratic Pilgrimage  15 Carl Phillips Per Fretum Febris: The Diseased Body in John Donne and Brett Foster  29 Kimberly Johnson Seven Poems  47 Kimberly Johnson The Plexiglass Wall and the Vital Verb  55 Molly Peacock Reading Donne: A Sentimental Journey  61 Jonathan F.S. Post

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Sonnets 1–14  75 Katie Ford What’s Done Is Donne and How Can I Find God Now: Poems from The Volcano Sequence  85 Alicia Ostriker Epithalamia and Aubades  103 Heather Dubrow Bird of Fire; The Double Death of Orpheus: Poems from The Ground  109 Rowan Ricardo Phillips Poems: The Sunne Rising, Felinity  113 Stephen Burt Poem: Musing  117 Stephen Yenser Heaney, Donne, and the Boldness of Love  123 Sean H. McDowell Quiver, Chatter, Purple Jinx: On Donne, Translation, and the Psalms  145 Mark Dow Donne and the Reign of Fig