Bilocation - Dislocation - Xlocation : The Apocalypse of Place in Eamonn Wall’s Poetry
Contemporary Irish-American poet Eamonn Wall, commuting between continents, has experienced a new form of exile, made of impermanence and mutation. His poetry, which shows this new relation to places, has had to find a language capable of expressing the continuous transformations of landscape as his...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Centre de Recherche "Texte et Critique de Texte"
2020-05-01
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| Series: | Sillages Critiques |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/sillagescritiques/8214 |
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| Summary: | Contemporary Irish-American poet Eamonn Wall, commuting between continents, has experienced a new form of exile, made of impermanence and mutation. His poetry, which shows this new relation to places, has had to find a language capable of expressing the continuous transformations of landscape as his multiple journeys have led him to apprehend it: no longer stable and delimited. One of Russian émigré Mark Rothko’s band paintings revealed to the poet the motion language he was looking for to express his New Irish experience of places that run into each other. Beyond the static and stating possibilities of communicational grammar, Wall’s poetics undoes the fixity of places, blasts their monumentality and initiates a new way of apprehending the places of the world: in relation to each other. His innovative poetry thereby taps and continues the great Romantic tradition of Wordsworthian “Nature” writing. Both François Jullien and Édouard Glissant will be convoked to read this poetics of transition and relation. |
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| ISSN: | 1272-3819 1969-6302 |