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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... piece's original appearance in Postmodern Culture and later in the book Essays in Postmodern Culture , edited by Eyal Amiran and John Unsworth ; to James Sherry , whose Roof Press published it as a poem in Virtual Reality ; to Peter ...
... piece is willful in challenging distinctions , claiming that , as far as genre is concerned , the act of writing confers an automatic power of definition . But the conditional " might dissolve ” registers the difficulties . The rifts ...
... piece of evidence that language writing has become a 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 ...
... pieces and talks on poetics that took place frequently during the initial stages of the formation of the language group ... piece with the Lenin - esque call to “ undermine the bourgeoisie , ” but in another talk he would declare that he ...
... piece . 8 The formation of self - managed literary venues is more obvious in the case of magazines : This , begun in 1971 , Hills ( 1973 ) , and L = A = N = G = U = A = G = E ( 1978 ) were initially significant . More than simply places ...
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 |