Kathleen Fraser and the Transmutation of Love

Love poetry has been defining for poetry, beginning at least as early as Catullus. And repeatedly, throughout diverse historical times, poets have testified to the synergistic relationship between being in love and writing poetry. Kathleen Fraser begins her love writing through lover-beloved forms, changing to a projective field poetics, a mode of writing eros that finds precedence in the poetry of H. D., Ezra Pound, and Robert Duncan as well as some New York school poets. Here, Heuving explores some of the works of Fraser that manifest an erotically charged field poetics.