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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... Poetics . 1. Title . PS325.P37 1996 811'.509 -- dc20 95-26685 Permissions Basil Bunting , “ Molten pool , incandescent spilth of ” from Collected Poems © 1994 by Basil Bunting , Oxford University Press by permission of Oxford University ...
... Poetics ; and to Douglas Messerli , who anthologized it in From the Other Side of the Century : A New American Poetry 1960-90 . To Rod Smith , who published a version of “ Language Writing and Literary History ” in the Barrett Watten ...
... 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 , though at times the practice ...
... poetic margins so I'll keep this binary in focus for another spate of couplets . Parallel to such self - defined poetry , there's been a tendency in some criticism to valorize if not fetishize the unrepeatable writing processes of the ...
Language Writing and Literary History Bob Perelman. the avant - garde ( ancient poetic adjective ! ) device of collage more extensively than most poems ? Is it really that different from , say , The Cantos ? ( Yes . The Cantos's growing ...
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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