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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... Practice 59 79 96 FIVE . Write the Power : Orthography and Community Six . Building a More Powerful Vocabulary : Bruce Andrews and the World ( Trade Center ) SEVEN . This Page Is My Page , This Page Is Your Page : Gender and Mapping ...
... Practice ” in American Literature ; to Jerry Herron , who published it in The Ends of Theory , edited by Jerry Herron , Dorothy Huson , Ross Pudaloff , and Robert Strozier , and to Fredric Jameson , for supplying the original ...
... practice can look like flattery . In the regions of academic discourse , the patterns of production and circulation are different . There , it - again - goes without saying that words , names , terms are repeatable : citation is the ...
... practice . The poetic movement known as language writing or language poetry began to take shape in the San Francisco Bay Area in the early seventies and a few years later in New York City , with a smaller nexus in Washington , DC ...
... practices that make up the provisional historical moment of language writing attempt to be autonomous , self - determining , free from the prior bureaucratic impositions of literary history . But at the same time , these impositions are ...
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 |