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Stitch, Unstitch: Modernist Poetry and the World of Work by Kristin Grogan Hardc
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- Book Title
- Stitch, Unstitch
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Columbia University Press
ISBN-10
0231219636
ISBN-13
9780231219631
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2346931082
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Publication Name
Stitch, Unstitch : Modernist Poetry and the World of Work
Language
English
Subject
Modern / 20th Century, Poetry, Subjects & Themes / Politics
Publication Year
2025
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism
Series
Modernist Latitudes Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
18 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2025-000689
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With unstinting research and careful attention, Grogan details modernist poetry's self-conscious takes on labor, from Ezra Pound's dangerously abstracted conceptions of poetry as craft to Lorine Niedecker's revaluation of women's work as apparently 'unproductive' labor, not unlike the writing of poetry. Offering us rewarding new lenses for reading canonical figures like Langston Hughes and Gertrude Stein while also pulling the understudied Lola Ridge into focus, this book recasts the work of poetry and the poetry of work., How is writing poetry like labor? Poets and their critics have toyed with this question for centuries, because it promises to answer larger questions about how humanity might address the curse of toil and the utopian promise of deep play. Kristin Grogan's Stitch, Unstitch looks at this question with fresh eyes. Focusing on literary modernism and its long afterlife, she gives us ways to see that a wide range of twentieth-century poets came up with nimble poetic strategies for understanding the conditions of work that avoided blind celebrations of technology and uncritical nostalgia for imagined pasts. Work not only makes demands on our vitality, Grogan shows, but moves to complex rhythms--and it's in those rhythms that Grogan finds forms of resourcefulness and invention that are poetic and, every now and then, political. Stitch, Unstitch is a truly clarifying study of an ancient social analogy., Stitch, Unstitch brings into focus forms of value obscured by capitalism's imperative to work for a living. Through beautiful readings and ingenious arguments, Grogan uncovers a new history of modernist poetry's engagements with the everyday life of labor to offer glimpses of a world beyond the lockstep demands of work., Through brilliant, expansive readings and careful archival analysis, Stitch, Unstitch illuminates the ways modernist texts investigate the varied sites and meanings of labor, including the work of poetry itself. Placing new interpretive focus on elements of social reproduction and unwaged work as central to modernist aesthetic and political horizons, Grogan offers an indispensable account of modernist poetry's continuing potential for imagining life within and beyond waged work., How is writing poetry like labor? Kristin Grogan's Stitch, Unstitch looks at this enduring question with fresh eyes. Focusing on literary modernism and its long afterlife, she demonstrates how a wide range of twentieth-century poets devised nimble poetic strategies for understanding the conditions of work that avoided blind celebrations of technology and uncritical nostalgia for imagined pasts. Stitch, Unstitch is a truly clarifying study of an ancient analogy., In S titch, Unstitch , Kristin Grogan brings her unstinting research and careful attention to the task of detailing modernist poetry's self-conscious takes on labor, from Pound's dangerously abstracted conceptions of poetry as craft to Niedecker's revaluation of women's work as a sort of seemingly "unproductive" labor not unlike the writing of poetry. Offering us rewarding new lenses for reading canonical figures like Hughes and Stein, while also pulling the understudied Lola Ridge into focus, this volume is a rich syllabus of what early to mid-20th-century poetry can reveal about the work of poetry and the poetry of work., How is writing poetry like labor? Poets and their critics have toyed with this question for centuries, because it promises to answer larger questions about how humanity might address the curse of toil and the utopian promise of deep play. Kristin Grogan's Stitch, Unstitch looks at this question with fresh eyes. Focusing on literary modernism and its long afterlife, she gives us ways to see that a wide range of twentieth-century poets came up with nimble poetic strategies for understanding the conditions of work that avoided blind celebrations of technology and uncritical nostalgia for imagined pasts. Work not only makes demands on our vitality, Grogan show, but moves to complex rhythms--and it's in those rhythms that Grogan finds forms of resourcefulness and invention that are poetic and, every now and then, political. Stitch, Unstitch is a truly clarifying study of an ancient social analogy.
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
809.19112
Table Of Content
List of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Ezra Pound's Work Ethic 2. The Social Life of Sewing: Lola Ridge 3. Langston Hughes's Constructivist Poetics 4. Reproducing Gertrude Stein 5. Lorine Niedecker and the Work of Restraint Coda: Drafting Modernism Notes Bibliography Index
Synopsis
In Stitch, Unstitch , Kristin Grogan argues that modernist poetry was deeply shaped by ordinary labor and the people who performed it. This relationship provoked powerful political and aesthetic experiments--and allowed modernist poets to imagine ways of life beyond the demand to earn a living., The labor of literature is often thought of as a specialized craft, distinct from everyday work. In Stitch, Unstitch, Kristin Grogan traces an alternative vision of writing and the writer, arguing that modernist poetry was deeply shaped by ordinary labor and the people who performed it. This relationship provoked powerful political and aesthetic experiments-and allowed modernist poets to imagine ways of life beyond the demand to earn a living. Poetic form, Grogan shows, offers ways to reflect on the meaning and worth of labor, particularly types of gendered labor that are typically unseen and undervalued. Her fine-grained readings locate modernist poetry within sites of social reproduction, factory work, craft labor, and other forms of manual labor, placing literary texts alongside objects such as constructivist posters and set design, household notes, and homemade books. Grogan considers Ezra Pound's ideology of craft and artisanal labor; Lola Ridge's immersion in the New York garment industry; Langston Hughes's encounter with Soviet workers' theater; Gertrude Stein's gendered and queer domestic labors; and Lorine Niedecker's employment as a hospital cleaner. Blending Marxist and feminist theory with attentive close readings, Stitch, Unstitch is a revelatory materialist account of the values of poetry., The labor of literature is often thought of as a specialized craft, distinct from everyday work. In Stitch, Unstitch , Kristin Grogan traces an alternative vision of writing and the writer, arguing that modernist poetry was deeply shaped by ordinary labor and the people who performed it. This relationship provoked powerful political and aesthetic experiments--and allowed modernist poets to imagine ways of life beyond the demand to earn a living. Poetic form, Grogan shows, offers ways to reflect on the meaning and worth of labor, particularly types of gendered labor that are typically unseen and undervalued. Her fine-grained readings locate modernist poetry within sites of social reproduction, factory work, craft labor, and other forms of manual labor, placing literary texts alongside objects such as constructivist posters and set design, household notes, and homemade books. Grogan considers Ezra Pound's ideology of craft and artisanal labor; Lola Ridge's immersion in the New York garment industry; Langston Hughes's encounter with Soviet workers' theater; Gertrude Stein's gendered and queer domestic labors; and Lorine Niedecker's employment as a hospital cleaner. Blending Marxist and feminist theory with attentive close readings, Stitch, Unstitch is a revelatory materialist account of the values of poetry.
LC Classification Number
PN56.M54G77 2025
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