The Marginalization of Poetry: Language Writing and Literary HistoryLanguage writing, the most controversial avant-garde movement in contemporary American poetry, appeals strongly to writers and readers interested in the politics of postmodernism and in iconoclastic poetic form. Drawing on materials from popular culture, avoiding the standard stylistic indications of poetic lyricism, and using nonsequential sentences are some of the ways in which language writers make poetry a more open and participatory process for the readers. Reading this kind of writing, however, may not come easily in a culture where poetry is treated as property of a special class. It is this barrier that Bob Perelman seeks to break down in this fascinating and comprehensive account of the language writing movement. A leading language writer himself, Perelman offers insights into the history of the movement and discusses the political and theoretical implications of the writing. He provides detailed readings of work by Lyn Hejinian, Ron Silliman, and Charles Bernstein, among many others, and compares it to a wide range of other contemporary and modern American poetry. |
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... becomes , who is Jack Spicer ? Poets for whom he matters would know , and their poems would be written in a world in which that line was heard , though they'd scarcely refer to it . Quoting or imitating another poet's line is not benign ...
... become a marginal subset of poetry , in other words , doubly marginal . Now of course I'm slipping back into the metaphorical sense of marginal which , however , in an academic context is the standard sense . The growing mass of writing ...
... become a bit binary ? Aren't there some distinctions to be drawn ? Do I really want to invoke Lukács's “ antinomies of bourgeois thought " where , rather than a conceptually pure science that purchases its purity at the cost of an ...
... becomes the shrine of a critical edition , the facsimile of Pound's editing - creation of what became Eliot's Waste Land ; the packets into which Dickinson sewed her poems , where the sequences possibly embody a higher order ; the ...
... becomes visible after 20 or 30 lines . In its own world , this poetry is far from marginal : widely published and taught , it has ... become marginal with respect to the theory - oriented sectors of the The Marginalization of Poetry 9.
Contents
The Avantgarde Particulars | 38 |
The New Sentence in Theory | 59 |
Orthography and Community | 79 |
Bruce Andrews | 96 |
Eight An Alphabet of Literary History | 144 |
NOTES | 167 |
INDEX | 183 |
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The Marginalization of Poetry: Language Writing and Literary History Bob Perelman Limited preview - 1996 |