Keats's Odes: A Lover's Discourse by Anahid Nersessian Paperback Book

Description: Keats's Odes by Anahid Nersessian A fresh, radical assessment of Keatss odes that meshes the intimate with the critical FORMAT Paperback CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description "When I say this book is a love story, I mean it is about things that cannot be gotten over—like this world, and some of the people in it."In 1819, the poet John Keats wrote six poems that would become known as the Great Odes. Some of them—"Ode to a Nightingale," "To Autumn"—are among the most celebrated poems in the English language. Anahid Nersessian here collects and elucidates each of the odes and offers a meditative, personal essay in response to each, revealing why these poems still have so much to say to us, especially in a time of ongoing political crisis. Her Keats is an unflinching antagonist of modern life—of capitalism, of the British Empire, of the destruction of the planet—as well as a passionate idealist for whom every poem is a love poem.The book emerges from Nersessians lifelong attachment to Keatss poetry; but more, it "is a love story: between me and Keats, and not just Keats." Drawing on experiences from her own life, Nersessian celebrates Keats even as she grieves him and counts her own losses—and Nersessian, like Keats, has a passionate awareness of the reality of human suffering, but also a willingness to explore the possibility that the world, at least, could still be saved. Intimate and speculative, this brilliant mix of the poetic and the personal will find its home among the numerous fans of Keatss enduring work. Author Biography Anahid Nersessian is associate professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of Utopia, Limited: Romanticism and Adjustment, and the coeditor of the Thinking Literature series, published by The University of Chicago Press. Review In Anahid Nersessians Keatss Odes: A Lovers Discourse, red life streams again through Keatss poems. It is a risky, passionate criticism that - in addition to yielding all sorts of insights into the man and his writing - tests what of her own life the poems might hold (and quicken). This is living in and through and with and against poetry. A brilliant and refreshingly unprofessional book -- Ben Lerner * Paris Review *Keatss Odes is brash, skeptical, and tender by turns, offering a fluctuating re-visioning of Keats which is firm in its convictions...Nersessians prose is bold, irreverent, declarative, and feral. Hyperbole and slackness are deceptive: every phrase feels carefully pitched. * Times Literary Supplement *The books intimacy, vulnerability and determination to provoke is true to Keats, and Nersessians genuine feeling for his work is never in doubt. One cant help but be pleased that two centuries on, Keatss odes still inspire engagement and love. * Washington Post *This book claims to be about Keatss odes. And it is. But it is also about beauty and sadness and love and revolution and how the odes can help us to better understand these things. It is nothing short of a perfect book, one that understands how poetry can transform ones life. Nersessian is on track to be the Harold Bloom of her generation, but a Bloom with politics. -- Juliana SpahrThis is an intense, often dazzling, original, illuminating, idiosyncratic, but also welcoming and welcome book. Offering trenchant, astute, often polemical and sometimes breathtaking readings of Keatss Odes - and simultaneously of love, politics, worldmaking, and self - Nersessian has written a propelled, impelled, impassioned work, truly in Keatss spirit. -- Maureen N. McLaneThe best book about John Keats published at the poets bicentenary. * Jacobin *Ive read Anahid Nersessians KEATS ODES: A LOVERS DISCOURSE a half dozen times now, and it just keeps getting better. Nobodys smarter than Nersessian, nobodys more humane, nobodys more searching, fearless, nobodys more provocative, nobody challenges and cherishes their subject this way. It is that thrilling sensation of meeting a new voice on the page you know youll spend your entire life following. -- Kaveh AkbarAnahid Nersessian offers a radical and unforgettable reading of the British writers odes-one that upends our sense of his poetic project. * The Nation *Intense emotion abounds in this literary blend of analysis and autobiography. . . . In six essays that examine each of Keatss Great Odes, Nersessian tells a kind of love story between herself and the poems. * Publishers Weekly *Thinking through John Keatss six "Great Odes," Nersessian offers up six critical and autobiographical essays that work, in their own right, like odes. Keatss Odes is also a terse, stunning pastiche of Roland Barthess "A Lovers Discourse". In imaginative, lucid prose, Nersessian proves that criticism can be loving, literary art. * Boston Globe, Best Books of 2021 *Keatss Odes is a discourse on love as interpretive practice. Demanding, generous, precise, utopian, and unfailingly brilliant, Nersessian reinvents reading itself as a form of critical intimacy for our broken times -- Srikanth ReddyThis book is a classic of a new genre, a love letter of literary theory, giving a desired political language to the lefts long-quivering heart for the lyric and sensuous knowledge of Keats. We always knew he was the activists Romantic, and now in articulate and radical analysis, we have an understanding of his poetic form that illuminates our unwavering passion for his Odes. -- Holly Pester Promotional A fresh, radical assessment of Keatss odes that meshes the intimate with the critical Details ISBN1804290343 Format Paperback Year 2022 ISBN-13 9781804290347 Publication Date 2022-11-08 Imprint Verso Books Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom NZ Release Date 2022-11-08 UK Release Date 2022-11-08 Author Anahid Nersessian ISBN-10 1804290343 Pages 160 Subtitle A Lovers Discourse Publisher Verso Books DEWEY 821.7 Audience Professional & Vocational AU Release Date 2023-01-09 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:139574026;

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