Social Poesis

The Poetry of Rachel Zolf

de Rachel Zolf (auteur), Heather Milne (éditeur)

Maison d'édition : Wilfrid Laurier University Press

mai 2019

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Résumé

Social Poesis introduces readers to the work of one of Canada’s most exciting and challenging poets. Through selections from across Rachel Zolf's poetic oeuvre, this book foregrounds the philosophical, ethical, and political questions that inform Zolf's poetry. Selections range from early poems in which Zolf explores transhistorical trauma and queer subjectivity to more recent writings that examine militarism, settler colonialism, and other forms of state-sanctioned violence. Zolf’s poetry enacts what she calls a “social poesis”; she is attuned to questions of ethical responsibility and the role, and limitations, of poetry as a tool for ethical thinking, political engagement, accountability, and bearing witness.

Heather Milne's introduction examines Zolf's compositional strategies, tracing the evolution of Zolf’s writing from an autobiographical poetics, in which Zolf as subject/speaker is locatable, toward a poetics that moves beyond the self to address political and ethical relations among subjects of geopolitics and settler colonialism. In her afterword, Zolf focuses on her most recent work, in which poems are composed almost entirely from archival sources and enact a kind of collective assemblage of enunciation.

Auteur

Rachel Zolf (auteur)

Rachel Zolf's five books of poetry include three published with Coach House Books. She won a Pew Fellowship in the Arts and a Trillium Book Award for Poetry, and was finalist for several other prizes. Zolf's literary papers are housed at York University and Simon Fraser University. She teaches at the University of Pennsylvania.
Heather Milne (Edité par)

Heather Milne is an associate professor at the University of Winnipeg. She is the author of Poetry Matters: Neoliberalism, Affect, and the Posthuman in Twenty-First Century North American Feminist Poetics (2018) and co-editor of Prismatic Publics, Innovative Canadian Women's Poetry and Poetics (2009).