Rethinking the North American Long Poem Form, Matter, Experiment |
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| Editor:
| Askin, Ridvan
Greve, Julius |
| Series title: | Recencies Series: Research and Recovery in Twentieth-Century American Poetics Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8263-6711-2 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 2024 |
| Publisher: | University of New Mexico Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $50.60 |
Book Description:
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For centuries, critics, poets, and philosophers have either openly proclaimed or tacitly assumed the long poem as the highest expression of literary ambition and excellence. Rethinking the North American Long Poem focuses on the North American variant of this notorious form-notorious because of its often forbidding and difficult character.
For centuries, critics, poets, and philosophers have either openly proclaimed or tacitly assumed the long poem as the highest expression of literary ambition and excellence. Rethinking the North American Long Poem focuses on the North American variant of this notorious form-notorious because of its often forbidding and difficult character.