This collection demonstrates the breadth and openness of the field
of avant-garde poetry by introducing a wide range of work in
poetics, theory, and criticism from emerging writers. Examining the
directions innovative poetry has taken since the emergence and
success of the Language movement, the essays discuss new forms and
the reorientation of older forms of poetry in order to embody
present and ongoing involvements. The essays center around four
themes: the relation between poetics and contemporary cultural
issues; new directions for avant-garde practices; in-depth
explorations of current poets and their predecessors; and
innovative approaches to the essay form or individual poetics.
Diverging from the traditional, linear argumentative style of
academic criticism, many of the essays in this collection instead
find critical forms more subtly related to poetry. Viewed as a
whole, the essays return to a number of shared issues, namely
poetic form and the production of present-day poetry. While
focusing on North American poetry, the collection does reference
the larger world of contemporary poetics, including potential
biases and omissions based on race and ethnicity.
This is cutting-edge criticism at its finest, essential reading
for students and scholars of avant-garde poetry, of interest to
anyone interested in contemporary American literature and
poetry.
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