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Infrathin: An Experiment in Micropoetics

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By (author): Marjorie Perloff

The infrathin was Marcel Duchamps playful name for the most minute shade of difference: that between the report of a gunshot and the appearance of the bullet hole, or between two objects in a series made from the same mold. Eat is not the same thing as ate. The poetic, Marjorie Perloff suggests, can best be understood as the language of infrathin. For in poetry, whether in verse or prose, words and phrases that are seemingly unrelated in ordinary discourse are realigned by means of sound, visual layout, etymology, grammar, and construction so as to make it new.   In her revisionist micropoetics, Perloff draws primarily on major modernist poets from Stein and Yeats to Beckett, suggesting that the usual emphasis on what this or that poem is about, does not do justice to its infrathin possibilities. From Goethes eight-line Wanderers Night Song to Eliots Four Quartets, to the minimalist lyric of Rae Armantrout, Infrathin is designed to challenge our current habits of reading and to answer the central question: what is it that makes poetry poetry? See more
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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 03 Sep 2021
  • Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780226798509

About Marjorie Perloff

Marjorie Perloff is the Sadie Dernham Patek Professor of Humanities Emerita at Stanford University and the Florence R. Scott Professor of English Emerita at the University of Southern California. She is the author of many books on poetry including Radical Artifice Wittgenstein's Ladder and Unoriginal Genius.

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