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Writing at the Crossroads of Languages

Writing at the Crossroads of Languages
Writing at the Crossroads of Languages
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.
0817310967
207-224
University of Alabama Press
Bergvall, Caroline
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Marks, Steven
Wallace, Mark
Bergvall, Caroline
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Marks, Steven
Wallace, Mark

Bergvall, Caroline (2001) Writing at the Crossroads of Languages. In, Marks, Steven and Wallace, Mark (eds.) Telling it Slant: Avant Garde Poetics of the 1990s. (Modern and Contemporary Poetics) Tuscaloosa, USA. University of Alabama Press, pp. 207-224.

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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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Published date: 2001

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Local EPrints ID: 49298
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/49298
ISBN: 0817310967
PURE UUID: 6efff4af-8e7a-4324-b4f4-f4610fee24fc

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Date deposited: 29 Oct 2007
Last modified: 11 Dec 2021 16:53

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Author: Caroline Bergvall
Editor: Steven Marks
Editor: Mark Wallace

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