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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... problem still reappears every six words . So this . and every poem , is a marginal work in a quite literal sense . Prose poems are another matter : but since they identify themselves as poems through style and publication 4 - ONE.
... sense of marginal which , however , in an academic context is the standard sense . The growing mass of writing on β marginalization β is not concerned with margins , left or right βand certainly not with its own . Yet doesn't the word ...
... sense and rural cast of Frost ( often translated to the suburbs ) , and an attenuated version of Williams as poet of the quotidian β these echoes might be read everywhere , but the more basic facts of modernism were shunned . The poet ...
... sense and work that pays little attention to the category of poetry . The various practices that make up the provisional historical moment of language writing attempt to be autonomous , self - determining , free from the prior ...
... sense of connection in the early seventies ; by the eighties , the group's interests in formal experiment and its politicized literary theorizing began to attract notice , positive and negative . Many poets and critics found the work to ...
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 |