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Allen Ginsberg
American poetry
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Autobiography
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Bruce Andrews
Career
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Charles Bernstein
Charles Olson
Charles Reznikoff
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Essay
Ezra Pound
Frank O'Hara
Genre
Gertrude Stein
Grammar
Ideology
Irony
Jack Kerouac
Jack Spicer
Jackson Mac Low
Jackson Pollock
John Ashbery
Joke
Literacy
Literature
Louis Zukofsky
Lyn Hejinian
Metaphor
Narrative
Novel
Novelist
Paragraph
Parataxis
Parody
Philip Whalen
Platitude
Poet
Poetics
Poetics (Aristotle)
Poetry
Politics
Postmodern Culture
Postmodernism
Prose
Publication
Publishing
Pun
Rae Armantrout
Rhetoric
Robert Creeley
Roland Barthes
Romanticism
Ron Silliman
Sensibility
Sonnet
Stanza
Susan Howe
Symptom
Textuality
The Other Hand
Typography
Utopia
Verisimilitude (fiction)
William Carlos Williams
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Writing
Product details
- ISBN 9780691021386
- Weight: 28g
- Dimensions: 197 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 28 Jul 1996
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Language writing, the most controversial avant-garde movement in contemporary American poetry, appeals strongly to writers and readers interested in the politics of postmodernism and in iconoclastic poetic form. Drawing on materials from popular culture, avoiding the standard stylistic indications of poetic lyricism, and using nonsequential sentences are some of the ways in which language writers make poetry a more open and participatory process for the readers. Reading this kind of writing, however, may not come easily in a culture where poetry is treated as property of a special class. It is this barrier that Bob Perelman seeks to break down in this fascinating and comprehensive account of the language writing movement. A leading language writer himself, Perelman offers insights into the history of the movement and discusses the political and theoretical implications of the writing. He provides detailed readings of work by Lyn Hejinian, Ron Silliman, and Charles Bernstein, among many others, and compares it to a wide range of other contemporary and modern American poetry.
A variety of issues are addressed in the following chapters: "The Marginalization of Poetry," "Language Writing and Literary History," "Here and Now on Paper," "Parataxis and Narrative: The New Sentence in Theory and Practice," "Write the Power," "Building a More Powerful Vocabulary: Bruce Andrews and the World (Trade Center)," "This Page Is My Page, This Page Is Your Page: Gender and Mapping," "An Alphabet of Literary Criticism," and "A False Account of Talking with Frank O'Hara and Roland Barthes in Philadelphia."
Bob Perelman, Associate Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, is a nationally known poet. He has published ten books of poetry as well as a critical book, The Trouble with Genius: Reading Pound, Joyce, Stein, and Zukofsky.
