Background
Blasing, Mutlu Konuk was born on June 27, 1944 in Istanbul, Turkey. Arrived in the United States, 1963. Daughter of Mustafa Celal Konuk and Muzeyyen (Uzun) Dursunoglu.
(Approaching post-World War II poetry from a postmodern cr...)
Approaching post-World War II poetry from a postmodern critical perspective, this study challenges the prevailing assumption that experimental forms signify political opposition while traditional forms are politically conservative. Blasing shows how four major postwar poets--Frank O'Hara, Elizabeth Bishop, John Ashbery, and James Merrill--cannot be read as politically conservative because formally traditional or vice versa. The work of these poets plays an important cultural role precisely by revealing how meanings and values do not inhere in forms but are always and irreducibly rhetorical.
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( Lyric poetry has long been regarded as the intensely pr...)
Lyric poetry has long been regarded as the intensely private, emotional expression of individuals, powerful precisely because it draws readers into personal worlds. But who, exactly, is the "I" in a lyric poem, and how is it created? In Lyric Poetry, Mutlu Blasing argues that the individual in a lyric is only a virtual entity and that lyric poetry takes its power from the public, emotional power of language itself. In the first major new theory of the lyric to be put forward in decades, Blasing proposes that lyric poetry is a public discourse deeply rooted in the mother tongue. She looks to poetic, linguistic, and psychoanalytic theory to help unravel the intricate historical processes that generate speaking subjects, and concludes that lyric forms convey both personal and communal emotional histories in language. Focusing on the work of such diverse twentieth-century American poets as T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, and Anne Sexton, Blasing demonstrates the ways that the lyric "I" speaks, from first to last, as a creation of poetic language.
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( The definitive selection by the first and foremost mode...)
The definitive selection by the first and foremost modern Turkish poet. A centennial volume, with previously unavailable poems, by Turkey's greatest poet. Published in celebration of the poet's one hundredth birthday, this exciting edition of the poems of the Nazim Hikmet (1902-1963) collects work from his four previous selected volumes and adds more than twenty poems never before available in English. The Blasing/Konuk translations, acclaimed for the past quarter-century for their accuracy and grace, convey Hikmet's compassionate, accessible voice with the subtle music, innovative form, and emotional directness of the originals.
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Blasing, Mutlu Konuk was born on June 27, 1944 in Istanbul, Turkey. Arrived in the United States, 1963. Daughter of Mustafa Celal Konuk and Muzeyyen (Uzun) Dursunoglu.
Student, Carleton College, 1965. Bachelor, College William and Mary, 1969. Doctor of Philosophy, Brown University, 1974.
Lecturer English University Massachusetts, 1974-1976. Assistant professor Pomona College, Claremont, California, 1977-1979, Brown University, Providence, 1979-1983, associate professor, 1983-1988, professor English department, since 1988. Director Copper Beech Press, Providence.
(Approaching post-World War II poetry from a postmodern cr...)
( Lyric poetry has long been regarded as the intensely pr...)
( The definitive selection by the first and foremost mode...)
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Fellow U. Massachusetts, 1974-1976.
Married Randolph Charles Blasing, August 21, 1965. 1 child, John Konuk.