This book explores the utopian imagination in contemporary American
poetry and the ways in which experimental poets formulate a utopian
poetics by adopting the rhetorical principles of negative theology,
which proposes using negative statements as a means of attesting to
the superior, unrepresentable being of God. With individual
chapters on works by such poets as Susan Howe, Nathaniel Mackey,
Charles Bernstein, and Alice Notley, this book illustrates how a
strategy of negation similarly proves optimal for depicting the
subject of utopia in literary works. Negative Theology and Utopian
Thought in Contemporary American Poetry: Determined Negations
contends that negative statements in experimental poetry illustrate
the potential for utopian social change, not by portraying an ideal
world itself but by revealing the very challenge of representing
utopia directly.
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