Background
Upton, Lee was born on June 2, 1953 in St. Johns, Michigan, United States. Daughter of Charles William Upton and Rose Mindwell Thompson.
(The Muse of Abandonment examines personal and cultural fo...)
The Muse of Abandonment examines personal and cultural forms of abandonment in the poetry of Charles Wright, Russell Edson, Jean Valentine, James Tate, and Louise Gluck. The first book to consider these poets as members of a generation, this work explores the five poets' reflections on coercion of thought and behavior and an atmosphere in contemporary culture that would trivialize private sensibility. The poets' recasting of confessional and surrealist legacies is also analyzed.
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Much of our strongest poetry that learned its lessons from early modernism lives by its defensive measures, that is, by means of reversing, inverting, and challenging in covert ways a dominant perceptual mode. Defensive Measures explores strategies by which poets claim their distinctiveness, and argues that poetry is the one literary form that most insistently demands a defense. It demands a defense, it would seem, because it is perpetually in crisis - not only in regard to its utility and its aesthetic appeal (or the vigor of its renunciation of such an appeal), but in regard to its generic existence. Upton defines a generative conception of defense and examines in a new light the poetry of Lorine Niedecker, Elizabeth Bishop, Louise Gluck, and Anne Carson. In writing about Bishop. Upton puts this well-regarded poet in a new framework, aligning her work with that of three poets whose aesthetics might be viewed as antithetical to her own and giving due to the more experimental elements of her poetics.
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Poetry. "In Upton's fifth book of poetry, she returns to tableaus in history, both mythical and actual. She pictures Emily Dickinson with blossoms in her hands, Dido standing before the burning pyre at Carthage; even lines from Shakespeare become fodder for a rich imagining of scene. The poems move between ancient settings and modern metaphorical language, high seriousness and humor"--Camille-Yvette Welsch.
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In her most ambitious collection of poems to date, Lee Upton extends and deepens her experiments with perception and language. Drawn into the orbit of her poems are multiple figurations--a Dante-inspired guide and a Leonardo da Vinci cartoon, Hamlet's Gertrude, and Lewis Carroll's Alice--and Emily Dickinson, Beatrix Potter, Louise Bogan, and Sylvia Plath. While investigating elements of women's biological, emotional, and spiritual experiences that prove particularly recalcitrant to language, she draws her attention to the "relentless experiment" of pregnancy and childbirth. Upton examines fleeting moments when objects are seen at the periphery of vision and draws upon the language we use in contemplating the psychic aftereffects of contemporary violence, dispossession, and exclusion.
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Upton, Lee was born on June 2, 1953 in St. Johns, Michigan, United States. Daughter of Charles William Upton and Rose Mindwell Thompson.
Master of Fine Arts, University Massachusetts, 1981. Doctor of Philosophy, State University of New York, Binghamton, 1986.
She is the author of several books of poetry, fiction, and literary criticism, including The Muse of Abandonment (1998, Bucknell University Press), Civilian Histories (2000, University of Georgia Press), Undid in the Land of Undone (2007, New Issues/Western Michigan University Press), and The Guide to the Flying Island (2009, Miami University Press). She is a professor of English and writer in residence at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania. In 1990 Upton collaborated with artist Editor Kerns and fellow poet Charles Molesworth on a collaborative exhibition of poetry and images at the Williams Center in Easton.
Her work has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, the New Republic, American Poetry Review, Harvard Review, DoubleTake.
"Undid in the Land of Undone", Poetry Daily
"The Stacks". "Body Doubles", Caffeine Destiny
Apology To Keats
Destruction Of Daughters
Hog Roast
Indispensable Sign
Interrupting An Addict
The Broom
The Crying Room
The Fish House
The How And Why Of Rocks And Minerals
The Table.
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Member Modern Language Association, South Atlantic Modern Language Association, National Council Teachers of English, Poetry Society of America.
Married Eric Jozef Ziolkowski, March 31, 1989. Children: Theodora Beatrice Rose Ziolkowski, Cecilia Ziolkowski.