Telling It Slant Avant Garde Poetics of The 1990S |
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Editor:
| Wallace, Mark Marks, Steven |
Contribution by:
| Mullen, Harryette Spahr, Juliana Borkhuis, Charles Barbiero, Daniel Brennan, Sherry Derksen, Jeff Evans, Steven Friedlander, Ren Finkhovser, Christopher Giscombe, C. S. Bergvall, Caroline Levy, Andrew Lin, Tan A. Luoma, Bill Ngai, Sianne Osman, Jena Prevallet, Kristin Robertson, Lisa Schwartz, Leonard Smith, Rod Stefans, Brian Kim Sullivan, Gary Willis, Elizabeth Hansen, Jefferson |
Series title: | Modern and Contemporary Poetics Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-8173-1096-7 |
Publication Date: | Nov 2001 |
Publisher: | University of Alabama Press
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $64.95 |
Book Description:
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The finest essays from the newest generation of critics and poet-critics are gathered together in this volume documenting the growth in readership and awareness of avant-garde poetries.
This collection demonstrates the breadth and openness of the field of avant-garde poetry by introducing a wide range of work in poetics, theory, and criticism from emerging writers. Examining the directions innovative poetry has taken since the emergence and success of the...
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The finest essays from the newest generation of critics and poet-critics are gathered together in this volume documenting the growth in readership and awareness of avant-garde poetries.
This collection demonstrates the breadth and openness of the field of avant-garde poetry by introducing a wide range of work in poetics, theory, and criticism from emerging writers. Examining the directions innovative poetry has taken since the emergence and success of the Language movement, the essays discuss new forms and the reorientation of older forms of poetry in order to embody present and ongoing involvements. The essays center around four themes: the relation between poetics and contemporary cultural issues; new directions for avant-garde practices; in-depth explorations of current poets and their predecessors; and innovative approaches to the essay form or individual poetics.
Diverging from the traditional, linear argumentative style of academic criticism, many of the essays in this collection instead find critical forms more subtly related to poetry. Viewed as a whole, the essays return to a number of shared issues, namely poetic form and the production of present-day poetry. While focusing on North American poetry, the collection does reference the larger world of contemporary poetics, including potential biases and omissions based on race and ethnicity.
This is cutting-edge criticism at its finest, essential reading for students and scholars of avant-garde poetry, of interest to anyone interested in contemporary American literature and poetry.