Jul 17, 2020
From 1981 to 1993, Jane Greer edited Plains Poetry
Journal, publishing poets who have been reviving the standard
instruments of “rhyme, meter, alliteration, assonance, painstaking
consideration to diction” which had been deserted in favor of free
verse. (These poets included names you can be conversant in from
the Catholic scene right now, comparable to Anthony Esolen and Mike
Aquilina.) Then, as they are saying, life occurred, and Greer didn’t write
a single poem for nearly thirty years.
However God’s methods are unpredictable. After three many years of
silence, Greer was out of the blue struck with a poem whereas sitting in a
New Orleans café. This started a gradual stream of output leading to
her new assortment, Love Like a Conflagration (which additionally
contains the poems from her solely earlier ebook).
Greer’s poetry is musical, fiery and accessible, and has
obtained excessive reward from lots of right now’s foremost Catholic poets,
together with previous podcast company Samuel Hazo, James Matthew Wilson,
Anthony Esolen and Mike Aquilina. Hazo writes: “There’s not a poem
on this outstanding ebook that can go away you unchanged or be
forgotten … Every of those poems is as completely present as it’s
consummate. [Greer] places on the web page the eagerness lengthy absent
from American poetry. I’ve by no means learn a ebook as poetically and
superbly frank as this.”
Contents
[2:57] Fashion and meant viewers of Jane’s work
[3:53] The introductory poem to Love Like a
Conflagration, “Micha-el”
[9:00] Construction of the gathering
[12:22] “Her Inexperienced Need”
[16:19] Jane’s 30-year hiatus from poetry and providential
return
[23:13] “On the Cafe Pontalba”, Jane’s first poem after 30 years
of silence
[25:27] Jane’s beginnings as a self-taught poet and early
influences
[30:30] “As a result of God Wished It”, a poem about unmerited
grace
[34:28] The connection between Jane’s religious life and her
poetry
[38:12] Coping with lust in “Tune of the Passerby” and
“Pastoral”
[45:08] Jane’s work founding and modifying Plains Poetry
Journal
[50:27] “Bourbon, Neat” and pure play with language
[55:34] The immersive musicality and pressure of Jane’s poetry
[57:50] “Feminist Androgyne”
[1:03:15] “The Haunting”
[1:05:09] “Twice Betrayed”, a poem in Lazarus’ voice
[1:10:49] “Within the Pool on the Bourbon Orleans”
Hyperlinks
Learn “Micha-el” https://isi.org/modern-age/micha-el/
Love Like a Conflagration https://lambingpress.com/product/love-like-a-conflagration/
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