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by Kathleen Fraser

ISBN: 0817309896
ISBN13: 978-0817309893
Language: English
Publisher: University Alabama Press; First edition (December 13, 1999)
Pages: 248
Category: History and Criticism
Subategory: Literature

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Translating the Unspeakable book. Other essays examine modernist women writers, their contemporary successors, and the visual poetics they have practiced.

Translating the Unspeakable book. By exploring the work of such poets as H. Mina Loy, Lorine Niedecker, and Barbara Guest, Fraser conveys their struggle to establish a presence within accepted poetic conventions and describes the role experimentation plays in helping women overcome self-imposed silence.

A prominent avant-garde poet charts both her personal artistic development and the difficulties faced by women writers pursuing innovative paths.

book by Kathleen Fraser. A prominent avant-garde poet charts both her personal artistic development and the difficulties faced by women writers pursuing innovative paths. An accomplished and influential poet, Kathleen Fraser has been instrumental in drawing attention to other women poets working outside the mainstream.

An accomplished and influential poet, Kathleen Fraser has been instrumental in drawing attention to other women poets .

An accomplished and influential poet, Kathleen Fraser has been instrumental in drawing attention to other women poets working outside the mainstream. Translating the Unspeakablegathers eighteen of her essays written over nearly twenty years, combining autobiography and criticism to examine what it means for any artist to innovate instead of following an already traveled path.

This provocative book provides a glimpse into the thought processes of the poetic mind, enhancing our understanding of innovative writing. Translating the Unspeakable gathers eighteen of her essays written over nearly twenty years, combining autobiography and criticism to examine what it means for any artist to innovate instead of following an already traveled path. This provocative book provides a glimpse into the thought processes of the poetic mind, enhancing our understanding of innovative writing.

Modern & Contemporary Poetics. Her most recent book of poems is il cuore: the heart.

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A collection of her essays, Translating the Unspeakable: Poetry and the Innovative Necessity, was published in. .

A collection of her essays, Translating the Unspeakable: Poetry and the Innovative Necessity, was published in 2000. Dear Kathleen: On the Occasion of Kathleen Fraser's 80th Birthday, a book of essays honoring her work and career, was published in 2017. Her Collected Poems is forthcoming from Nightboat Books. From 1972 to 1992, Fraser was a professor of creative writing at San Francisco State University, where she served as director of its Poetry Center, founded its American Poetry Archives, and wrote and narrated the video Women Working in Literature.

Fraser, Kathleen (2000) Translating the Unspeakable: Poetry and the Innovative Necessity. Tuscaloosa and London: University of Alabama Press. Gregory, Eileen (2002) ‘ A Poetics of Emerging Evidence : Experiment in Kathleen Fraser’s Poetry’, in Laura Hinton and Cynthia Hogue (eds), We Who Love to Be Astonished: Experimental Women’s Writing and Performance Poetics. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. Hanscombe, Gillian and Virginia L. Smyers (1987) Writing for their Lives: the Modernist Women 1910–1940.

Translating the Unspeakable: Poetry and the innovative necessity: Essays.

Change of Address, and other poems. San Francisco: Kayak Press, 1966. In Defiance of the Rains: Poems. San Francisco: Kayak Press, 1969. Translating the Unspeakable: Poetry and the innovative necessity: Essays.

A prominent avant-garde poet charts both her personal artistic development and the difficulties faced by women writers pursuing innovative paths.

An accomplished and influential poet, Kathleen Fraser has been instrumental in drawing attention to other women poets workingoutside the mainstream. Translating the Unspeakable gathers eighteen of her essays written over nearly twenty years, combining autobiography and criticism to examine what it means for any artist to innovate instead of following an already traveled path.

In autobiographical passages Fraser tells how her generation was influenced by revolutions in art and philosophy during the early 1960s and how she spent years pursuing idiosyncratic means of rediscovering the poem's terms. By the 1970s her evolving poetics were challenged by questions of gender, until immersion in feminist/modernist scholarship led her to initiate greater dialogue among experimentalist poets.

Other essays examine modernist women writers, their contemporary successors, and the visual poetics they have practiced. By exploring the work of such poets as H. D., Mina Loy, Lorine Niedecker, and Barbara Guest, Fraser conveys their struggle to establish a presence within accepted poetic conventions and describes the role experimentation plays in helping women overcome self-imposed silence.

All of Fraser's writings explore how the search to find one's own way of speaking into a very private yet historic space—of translating the unspeakable—drives poetic experimentation for women and men alike. This provocative book provides a glimpse into the thought processes ofthe poetic mind, enhancing our understanding of innovative writing.

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Bukelv
I turned once again to Kathleen Fraser's intriguing TRANSLATING THE UNSPEAKABLE after a long hiatus, for I had seen a recent essay by her and it struck me once again that the older essays, collected here in this handsome volume from Alabama, had real qualities of composition and inspiration, though they perhaps struggle here and there for what she can now employ effortlessly, like Alec Guinness, that assured mastery of the form. Plunging right in, I felt the top of my head coming off as from every corner of (nearly) every page a rainbow of arrows hurled themselves at my brain. "What's messing up my tidy defense system, about to leave me open for attack?"

We go to Fraser first off for the inquiring turn of her mind, then for the activist spirit she has displayed in so many contexts, both in writing and in life. Often she returns to her own history, a story of a woman who got very lucky very early (having Frank O'Hara as a friend!) and who was also dismissed, neglected and put on the shelf for gender reasons, and who managed to find a way to overcome this prejudice both theoretically and practically. Like Alex Haley's ROOTS, Fraser's TRANSLATING is a book of ancestor hunting, for like Haley she believes in the totemic power of those who came before, holding their lamps, shedding their light into out dim present and questionable future. In college she was taught a steady diet of marvelous male modernists, and it wasn't until later that she wondered why, except for Enily Dickinson, and a bit of Woolf, she was not introduced to any actual woman writers. The battle over the canon is just part of the texture of these essays, but it is always a stirring saga, one we return to with fascination like Civil War buffs.

Her studies of individual poets (Niedecker) are always to the point, and one essay here always catches my eye, her focus on the relationship between two very different writers, Mina Loy and Basil Bunting, which is among the best criticism I have seen of either poet. It is a book of keen observations, the poet Steve Benson for example sharing "the baffled seriousness of brilliant clowns like Stan Laurel." And a book of prophesy, for it ends with a consideration of Charles Olson's "Field" theory, embodied by feminist examples including Myung Mi Kim and Hannah Weiner, the page exploded a la Olson's poignant "Rose" poem. Today, with Fraser leading the way into further realms of typographical bewilderment and wonder, I read "Olson's Field" as perhaps her statement of intent, a map for what was to follow.

Alabama should have hired a copy editor long ago. It's a shame that the book misspells the names of Daisy Aldan and Michael Amnasan--and that's just the A's!

Yggdi
In this wonderful book of vibrant and challenging essays, Fraser questions the dominant forms of both poetry and culture without becoming overly polemical. So often, in claiming her own and women's territory, a writer will mow down everyone who even remotely strays from her standards; but Fraser's essays (the title one is a prime example) present and explain a number of varying forms, a number of ways of working through what is to be worked through, without privileging any of them. When she writes about finding her own voice in the sixties, or about starting the experimental journal HOW(ever), she manages to convey her struggle at that time without damning The Oppressor. It's a difficult stance to take -- one which could easily be tarnished by watching the celebrated poets of the world preen in the adulation of the academy -- and it filled me with a kind of buoyant hope for where literature might yet be going.

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