Screen LibraryThe meaning of form in contemporary innovative poetry /
"This study engages the life of form in contemporary innovative poetries through both an introduction to the latest theories and close readings of leading North American and British innovative poets. The critical approach derives from Robert Sheppard's axiomatic contention that poetry is t...
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Palgrave Macmillan,
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| Publisher Address: | Switzerland : |
| Publication Dates: | [2016] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Modern and contemporary poetry and poetics
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"This study engages the life of form in contemporary innovative poetries through both an introduction to the latest theories and close readings of leading North American and British innovative poets. The critical approach derives from Robert Sheppard's axiomatic contention that poetry is the investigation of complex contemporary realities through the means (meanings) of form. Analyzing the poetry of Rosmarie Waldrop, Caroline Bergval, Sean Bonney, Barry MacSweeney, Veronica Forrest-Thomson, Kenneth Goldman, Allen Fisher, and Geraldine Monk, Sheppard argues that their forms are a matter of au |
| Carrier Form: | xi, 248 pages : illustration ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-242) and index. |
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9783319340449 (hardback) : 3319340441 (hardback) 9783319340456 (eBook) 331934045X (eBook) |
| Index Number: | PN1281 |
| CLC: | I106.2 |
| Call Number: | I106.2/S549 |
| Contents: | Introduction : form, forms, and forming -- Veronica Forrest-Thomson : poetic artifice and naturalization in theory and practice -- Convention and constraint : form in the innovative sonnet sequence -- Translation as transformation : Tim Atkins' and Peter Hughes' Petrarch -- Meddling the medieval : Caroline Bergvall and Erín Moure -- Translation as occupation : Simon Perril and Sean Bonney -- Rosmarie Waldrop : poetics, wild forms, and palimpsest prose -- The trace of poetry and non-poetic : conceptual writing and appropriation in Kenneth Goldsmith, Vanessa Place, and John Seed -- Stefan Th |