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
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