The World Is Charged: Poetic Engagements with Gerard Manley Hopkins(Clemson University Press w/ LUP)

The discovery of Gerard Manley Hopkins’s poetry in the twentieth century was a revelation for postwar poets, who discovered in both Hopkins’s style and subject matter a voice seemingly bottled for their own time. This influence has not faded in the twenty-first century; in fact, it has grown all the more pervasive as poets from many backgrounds and nations have found, in the voice of this nineteenth-century Jesuit, a revolutionary way of addressing contemporary concerns relating to human imagination, ecology, “green” ethics, the role of art, and individual spirituality. The poets collected in The World Is Charged: Poetic Engagements with Gerard Manley Hopkins engage with Hopkins in diverse ways. Some mention Hopkins or address some aspect of his life. Others channel his innovative poetics or address important Hopkinsian themes. All demonstrate the centrality of his influence in contemporary poetry. Unfortunately, critics have mostly neglected the importance of Hopkins as a contemporary model, instead pinning his influence to the early twentieth century. In a climate where high modernism, Whitmanic free verse, and the confessional lyric are often held up as contemporary poetry’s dominant forerunners, this book proposes a more complex genealogy, tracing back to Hopkins and his influential early admirers current strands of emotional and spiritual openness, pleasure in word play and sonic textures, and veneration of the dynamic material world.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments Foreword Introduction Win Bassett The Kings of Missoula Libby Bernardin And the Great White Pelicans Allen Braden Inspiration Taboo against the Word Beauty, Ornithological Version on Aesthetic Theory Bearded Barley Steven Collier Brown The Bowerbirds The Small Bang Robin Chapman Dappled Things Fire Landscape Spare Morri Creech The Language of Pastoral At Buck Hall Carolyn Creedon Pied Beauty Philip Dacey A Dream of Hopkins A Simple Garden Ladder The Sleep Meg Day Ghazal for My Selves, as Samson & Delilah Aubade for One Still Uncertain of Being Born R. H. W. Dillard Curtal Sonnet (with an Admonition) Lynn Domina Confession to Hopkins Georgia Edwards Come to Me Desmond Egan Hopkins in Kildare John Freeman August Green: A Baptism Birds at Dawn Alice Friman The Acolyte Taylor Graham To a Young Poet Resisting Hopkins Jesse Graves Arrhythmia Goldengrove Eve Grubin Date Luke Hankins All Fall Long Maryanne Hannan Strife Jeff Hardin The Bounds of Belief The Mind and Soul Growing Wide Withal David Havird The Horse on Zennor Hill Ava Leavell Haymon The Tao of Alphabet Winter Mother Jane Hicks My Second-Grade Teacher Reads Us Gerard Manley Hopkins Jan D. Hodge A.M.: Her Lone Spark Dying Thomas Alan Holmes Ascension Jay Hopler That Necessary Evil The End of the Happy Hours Ron Houchin One Wet Wednesday Afternoon Joan Houlihan By Eye-slit Come on the Cold No Fire Would Come Back James Clinton Howell River, Dissolution Rebecca Gayle Howell from Four Common Prayers Kimberly Johnson Pater Noster Spring Again A Psalm of Ascents John Lane Poinsett’s Bridge Keagan LeJeune Reverdie Gwyneth Lewis The Telegraph Baby Red Kites at Tregaron Ed Madden Ark Saint’s finger, Hill of Slane In the absence of a contract Maurice Manning Ten Penny Red Bird, Black Sky The Tabernacle of Love Amit Majmudar Instructions to an Artisan Prayer The Christ-Frost Horse Apocalypse Sandra Marchetti Migration Theory Never-Ending Birds Paul Mariani Hopkins in Ireland Epitaph for the Journey Christopher Martin Parable of the Red-Tailed Hawks Mariana McDonald Scoop Ashley Anna McHugh What to Tell the Girl Lucien Darjeun Meadows Finding Home by Taste, by Fire Winter Solstice Philip Metres Compline Elegy for D.S. Susan Laughter Meyers Praise Song for Nikky Finney Coastland Maren O. Mitchell Breath and Bread Meredith Moench I Waked and Fell Robert Morgan Maple Gall Algae Aspen Song Left Behind Angela Alaimo O’Donnell Hawk in the Bronx Melissa Range The Canary Christ Imagined as Cavalry Commander October Trees Prayer to the Birds Ron Rash Dylan Thomas The Corpse Bird Speckled Trout Fall Creek Janeen Pergrin Rastall Fossil Hunting at the Quarry Joshua Robbins Equinoctial A Question of Ear The Mercy Seat Don Share Savior Derek Sheffield Ornithology 101 Oystermen Prayer with Fur Prayer with Game Mark Smith-Soto Collateral Damage Cheryl Stiles These Fatals Elemental Mary Szybist Via Negativa In Tennessee I Found a Firefly Knocking or Nothing R. K. R. Thornton Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889) Pimone Triplett A Local Landfill’s Invitation to Trash Left on the Moon Oil Ego Damian Walford Davies Perspective Spouse Saw Daniel Westover Breeze-Born Margaret’s Reply Katharine Whitcomb Sea Journal Sarah Ann Winn The Baker Falls for Hopkins John Wood A Sestina for Mishima Η Ποιητική William Kelley Woolfitt Meditation on the Hands of a Boy Miner The Acolyte Boy with Kite Charles Wright Jesuit Graves There Is a Balm in Gilead William Wright Michelle in Rain A Path through Walnut Trees after Rain Aubade for Yellow Jacket Afterword Contributors

About the Author :
Daniel Westover is author of R. S. Thomas: A Stylistic Biography (University of Wales Press, 2011) and co-editor of The World Is Charged: Poetic Engagements with Gerard Manley Hopkins (Clemson University Press, 2016). Daniel earned an MFA from McNeese State University and a PhD from the University of Wales, Bangor. He lives in Johnson City, Tennessee, where he is Associate Professor of English at East Tennessee State University. William Wright is Writer in Residence, University of Tennessee.