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Unoriginal Genius - Poetry by Other Means in the New Century (Paperback)
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Unoriginal Genius - Poetry by Other Means in the New Century (Paperback)
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In "Unoriginal Genius" Marjorie Perloff explores a new development
in contemporary poetry: the repurposing of other people's words in
order to make new works, by framing, citing, and recycling already
existing phrases, sentences, and even full texts. Paradoxically,
she argues, this 'unoriginal' poetry is more accessible and, in a
sense, 'personal' than the hermetic poetry of the 1980s and '90s.
Perloff traces this poetics of "Unoriginal Genius" from one of its
paradigmatic works, Walter Benjamin's encyclopedic "Arcades
Project", a book largely made up of citations. She discusses the
processes of choice, framing, and reconfiguration in the work of
Brazilian Concretism and Oulipo, two movements now understood to be
precursors of such hybrid citational texts as Charles Bernstein's
opera libretto "Shadowtime" and Susan Howe's documentary lyric
sequence "The Midnight". "Unoriginal Genius" concludes with a
discussion of Kenneth Goldsmith's conceptualist book "Traffic" - a
seemingly "pure" transcript of one holiday weekend's worth of radio
traffic reports. In these instances and many others, Perloff
reveals 'poetry by other means' of great ingenuity, wit, and
complexity.
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