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Mark Jarman, author of the narrative poem <i>Iris</i> and the lyric sequence <i>Unholy Sonnets,</i> is a poet associated with the revival of narrative and traditional form in contemporary American poetry. In <i>Body and Soul</i> he considers poetry from the Renaissance to the present in essays that touch on the importance of religion, place, and personal experience to poetry and reflect Jarman's particular interests. His focus is on the relationship between lyric and narrative, song and story, in poems of all kinds. He considers the poem as a record of both body and soul, and examines his own life, in an extended autobiographical essay, as a source for the stories he has told in his poetry.<br> The essays "Where Poems Take Place" and "A Shared Humanity" consider the relation between setting or situation and representation. The psychological roots of narrative are considered in "The Primal Storyteller." But the main interest of these essays is how and why narrative is used as a form. The influence of Robinson Jeffers's style of narrative is argued in "Slip, Shift, and Speed Up: The Influence of Robinson Jeffers's Narrative Syntax." In "The Trace of a Story Line" an argument is made

Author

Mark Foster Jarman

Publisher

The University of Michigan Press

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9780472068029

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Poetry, Humanities