Poetry and the Fate of the Senses Review

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(More customer reviews)This award-winning book is chock full of thought-provoking material, which not only collects ground-shifting pieces Stewart has written (such as "Lyric Possession"), but also develops a very coherent thruline out of that wonderful work, marshaling it all towards an argument about the importance of the senses in poetic form and in our reading of poetry: the sensuousness of verse, worked up in its form, is a form of collective memory, as we take up and reuse, rework different shapes from the past. Moving through examples across many periods, it gives us new ways to care about poetry while we analyze it, pursuing a range of aesthetic questions with gestures towards poems upon which they bear. This may frustrate overmethodical readers (looking for surefire ways to produce readings within the stale paramaters of the "period"), but what they miss is that the book has a concreteness that actually rivals what a more confined study can produce. In short, it has a suggestiveness that is only experimental in the sense that it comes from experience, and will give you as many new avenues into poetry as reasons for the importance of verse in our time.

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