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'Never Muted Heart' : Tom Weatherly’s Trespass [in David Grundy (ed.), A Short History of Tom Weatherly]
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Grundy, David (2019) 'Never Muted Heart' : Tom Weatherly’s Trespass [in David Grundy (ed.), A Short History of Tom Weatherly]. Jacket 2 . ISSN 2167-2326.
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Official URL: https://jacket2.org/article/never-muted-heart
Abstract
Maumau American Cantos, Tom Weatherly’s first collection of poetry, possesses one of the best titles for a book of any decade of the twentieth century, and perhaps even for the century as a whole. Yet, three years after his death, his work remains almost completely ignored. In this essay, primarily via readings of poems from the Maumau Cantos, I will hope to show why such neglect is borderline criminal.[1]Weatherly’s poetry is seriously playful and expansively compacted, shot through with quickfire flashes of anger, love, tenderness, and a biting wit. He had a rare gift for transmuting the techniques and spirit of the blues into literary form. There is — almost — nothing else quite like it, though it is work steeped in copious practices of reading, listening, observing, speaking, and singing. Weatherly combines allusions to sources as diverse as English Renaissance poetry, the white modernist canon, African American music, the sexual slang of the dozens, and to his own friends, lovers, family, and influences
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > English and Comparative Literary Studies | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Jacket 2 | ||||
Publisher: | University of Pennsylvania | ||||
ISSN: | 2167-2326 | ||||
Official Date: | September 2019 | ||||
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Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) |
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