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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... fact has not prevented “ language writing , " as a polemic horizon pregnant with unknown but unwanted developments ... facts of modernism were shunned . The poet as engaged , oppositional intellectual , and poetic form and syntax as ...
... fact of literary history . But its placement makes a good place to start a description . It is just an alphabetic coincidence , but language writing finds itself between the still - dominant scenic monolog of the writing workshops and ...
... fact . A movement without specific manifestos or official membership will tend to be identified through the writing of some of its members : this is happening with language writing . A subsequent critical assessment may well focus on ...
... fact the writing is so easy . The only difficulty is in avoiding connections that could be called insightful or profound . By stabbing with my pen at random words and phrases in about a minute I ' wrote this Language Poem : One ...
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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 |
The Marginalization of Poetry: Language Writing and Literary History Bob Perelman Limited preview - 1996 |