TY - JOUR
T1 - Fragments of the Place Itself
T2 - Boston neighbourhoods in prose poetry
AU - Atherton, Cassandra
AU - HETHERINGTON, Paul
N1 - Funding Information:
Cassandra Atherton is a prose poet and Associate Professor in Writing and Literature. She was a Harvard Visiting Scholar in English 2015–16 and a Visiting Fellow at Sophia University, Tokyo in 2014. She has published 17 critical and creative books and has been invited to edit six special editions of leading journals, most recently Australian Poetry Journal. Cassandra is the successful recipient of many national and international grants including a VicArts grant (2015) and an Australian Council Grant (2016). Her most recent books of prose poetry are Trace (2015), Exhumed (2015) and Pika-don (2018), and an edited collection of scholarship on the atomic bomb, The Unfinished Bomb: Shadows and Reflections (2017). She is the current poetry editor of Westerly magazine and is co-writing a scholarly book, Prose Poetry: An Introduction with Paul Hetherington for Princeton University Press.
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PY - 2019/4/3
Y1 - 2019/4/3
N2 - As complex and geographically discrete life environments, city neighbourhoods are invested with a great deal of personal meaning as well as with general cultural significance. Pierre Moyal argues that ‘the city is poeticized by the subject’ and explores the refabrication and consumption of space by the city dweller, along with the outsider's creative and fractious presence. Boston, MA, has been touted as ‘the city of neighborhoods’ by Anthony Bak Buccitelli and our practice-led research project, Fragments of the Place Itself, investigates insider and outsider creativity, rupture and poetic form in Boston's North End, Beacon Hill and Cambridge neighbourhoods through prose poetry. Our project considers the notions of perambulation and drifting, and the idea of genius loci. Further, we argue that prose poetry is well suited to writing about neighbourhoods because prose poetry's fully justified text is able to set up a demarcation or ‘plot’ that readily accommodates both insider and outsider viewpoints.
AB - As complex and geographically discrete life environments, city neighbourhoods are invested with a great deal of personal meaning as well as with general cultural significance. Pierre Moyal argues that ‘the city is poeticized by the subject’ and explores the refabrication and consumption of space by the city dweller, along with the outsider's creative and fractious presence. Boston, MA, has been touted as ‘the city of neighborhoods’ by Anthony Bak Buccitelli and our practice-led research project, Fragments of the Place Itself, investigates insider and outsider creativity, rupture and poetic form in Boston's North End, Beacon Hill and Cambridge neighbourhoods through prose poetry. Our project considers the notions of perambulation and drifting, and the idea of genius loci. Further, we argue that prose poetry is well suited to writing about neighbourhoods because prose poetry's fully justified text is able to set up a demarcation or ‘plot’ that readily accommodates both insider and outsider viewpoints.
KW - Prose poetry
KW - fragments
KW - neighbourhoods
KW - perambulation
KW - third places
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UR - http://www.mendeley.com/research/fragments-place-itself-boston-neighbourhoods-prose-poetry
U2 - 10.1080/14790726.2018.1510015
DO - 10.1080/14790726.2018.1510015
M3 - Article
SN - 1943-3107
VL - 16
SP - 158
EP - 169
JO - New Writing
JF - New Writing
IS - 2
ER -