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Reading the Difficulties: Dialogues with Contemporary American Innovative Poetry (Modern & Contemporary Poetics)
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Paperback. The bold essays that make up "Reading the Difficulties "offer case studies in and strategies for reading innovative poetry. Editor(s): Fink, Thomas; Halden-Sullivan, Judith. Series: Modern & Contemporary Poetics Series. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 363.
The bold essays that make up Reading the Difficulties offer case studies in and strategies for reading innovative poetry.
Definitions of what constitutes innovative poetry are innumerable and are offered from every quarter. Some critics and poets argue that innovative poetry concerns free association (John Ashbery), others that experimental poetry is a “re-staging” of language (Bruce Andrews) or a syntactic and cognitive break with the past (Ron Silliman and Lyn Hejinian). The tenets of new poetry abound.
But what of the new reading that such poetry demands? Essays in Reading the Difficulties ask what kinds of stances allow ... Read more
The bold essays that make up Reading the Difficulties offer case studies in and strategies for reading innovative poetry.
Definitions of what constitutes innovative poetry are innumerable and are offered from every quarter. Some critics and poets argue that innovative poetry concerns free association (John Ashbery), others that experimental poetry is a “re-staging” of language (Bruce Andrews) or a syntactic and cognitive break with the past (Ron Silliman and Lyn Hejinian). The tenets of new poetry abound.
But what of the new reading that such poetry demands? Essays in Reading the Difficulties ask what kinds of stances allow ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University Alabama Press
Condition
New
Series
Modern & Contemporary Poetics
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Alabama, United States
ISBN
9780817357528
SKU
V9780817357528
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About
Thomas Fink is a professor of English at the City University of New York, USA. Judith Halden-Sullivan is a professor of English at Millersville University of Pennsylvania, USA.
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