Opposing Poetries Pt. 2; Readings

Erscheinungsjahr 1996
ISBN: 978-0-8101-1414-2
Verlag: Northwestern University Press

Buch, Englisch, 296 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 372 g

Reihe: Avant-garde and Modernism Studies

This volume presents a selection of nine years of Hank Lazer's writing on a range of issues in contemporary American poetry. These essays are a kind of temporal cubism, a shifting but repeated focus on several key issues: the consequences of poetry's institutionalization; the pedagogic and political value of experimental poetry; and the crisis that results from professionalized, mainstream poets' misidentification of poetry with self-expression. Through a series of recurring cultural, material, and institutional perspectives, Lazer investigates the assumptions and habits that govern conflicting conceptions of contemporary American poetry, while refining, reconsidering, and questioning his own and modern theorists' assertions and claims relating to experimental poetry. Part One: ""Issues and institutions"" is an examination of the shift in the governing assumptions of contemporary poetic practice. Lazer inspects the key critical works which address poetry in the 1980s and 1990s, as well as the political and aesthetic impact of modern critics, of poetry reading programs, and of the publishing industry and libraries on contemporary poetic practice. In Part Two: ""Readings"", Lazer presents a series of sustained readings of important experimental texts. Included are the poets Susan Howe, Lyn Hejinian, Bruce Andrews, and James Sherry; Lazer places these poets in the context of contemporary literary theory, and inspects both the successes and the failures of said theory to interpret these works.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lazer, Hank

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Outlaw to classic - the poetry of Charles Berstein and Ron Silliman; language writing, or literary history and the strange case of the two Dr Williamses; a reading of Lyn Hejinian's ""My life""; ""Travelling many direction'd crossings"" - on the poetry of Rachel Blaue DuPleiss; ""Singing into the draft"" - Susan Howe's textual frontiers; partial to error - Joan Retallack's ""Errata suite""; ""To make equality less drab"" - the writing of Bruce Andrews; thinking about it - David Antin's ""Selected poems 1963-1973""; mouth to mouth - Douglas Messerli's ""Maxims from my mother's milk/Hymns to him - a dialogue""; Charles Berstein's ""Dark city"" - Polis, policy and the policing of poetry; atomic epistemology and consituent knowledge - James Sherry's ""Our nuclear heritage""; reading and writing Ron Silliman's ""Demo to ink"".