American Poets in the 21st Century
The New Poetics
Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, [2007]
Format: Book
Description: xiii, 400 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm + 1sound disc (4 3/4 in.).
The ideal introduction to the current generation of American poets
Understanding the current moment in poetry can be a difficult task, as the reader must sort among the avant-garde and mainstream, the traditional and the experimental. A welcome introduction to contemporary poetics, this collection represents one of the first attempts to chart the progress of a new generation of poets. Each chapter focuses on one poet, and includes a selection of poems, a brief statement of purpose by the poet, and a critical essay by a notable scholar. Working in forms ranging from the post-confessional lyric to documentary poetics, from the prose poem and the sonnet to sound poetry, these thirteen poets rank among the most notable and distinct of recent years. American Poets in the 21st Century will serve as a useful and enlightening guide for any reader interested in how new American poetry can look, feel, and sound. The enclosed CD includes each of the thirteen poets reading their work.
Poets include: Joshua Clover, Stacy Doris, Peter Gizzi, Kenneth Goldsmith, Myung Mi Kim, Mark Levine, Tracie Morris, Mark Nowak, D.A. Powell, Juliana Spahr, Karen Volkman, Susan Wheeler, and Kevin Young.
Hardcover is un-jacketed.
Understanding the current moment in poetry can be a difficult task, as the reader must sort among the avant-garde and mainstream, the traditional and the experimental. A welcome introduction to contemporary poetics, this collection represents one of the first attempts to chart the progress of a new generation of poets. Each chapter focuses on one poet, and includes a selection of poems, a brief statement of purpose by the poet, and a critical essay by a notable scholar. Working in forms ranging from the post-confessional lyric to documentary poetics, from the prose poem and the sonnet to sound poetry, these thirteen poets rank among the most notable and distinct of recent years. American Poets in the 21st Century will serve as a useful and enlightening guide for any reader interested in how new American poetry can look, feel, and sound. The enclosed CD includes each of the thirteen poets reading their work.
Poets include: Joshua Clover, Stacy Doris, Peter Gizzi, Kenneth Goldsmith, Myung Mi Kim, Mark Levine, Tracie Morris, Mark Nowak, D.A. Powell, Juliana Spahr, Karen Volkman, Susan Wheeler, and Kevin Young.
Hardcover is un-jacketed.
Series: Wesleyan poetry.
Contents:
Mark Levine -- Recording devices : Mark Levine's poetics of evidence / Sabrina Orah Mark -- Karen Volkman -- A space for desire and the mutable self : Karen Volkman's experimentations with the lyric / Paul Otremba -- D.A. Powell -- Here is the door marked heaven : D.A. Powell / Stephen Burt -- Peter Gizzi -- Peter Gizzi's city : the political quotidian / Cole Swensen -- Juliana Spahr -- All together/now : writing the space of collectivities in the poetry of Juliana Spahr / Kimberly Lamm -- Joshua Clover -- The pleasures of not merely circulating : Joshua Clover's political imagination / Charles Altieri -- Kevin Young -- Mixed-up medium : Kevin Young's turn-of-the-century American triptych / Rick Benjamin -- Tracie Morris -- Improvisational insurrection : the sound poetry of Tracy Morris / Christine Hume -- Myung Mi Kim -- Making common the commons : Myung Mi Kim's ideal subject / Warren Liu -- Stacy Doris -- The poetics of radical constraint and unhooked bedazzlement in the writing of Stacy Doris / Caroline Crumpacker -- Susan Wheeler -- Susan Wheeler's open source poetics / Lynn Keller -- Mark Nowak -- Mark Nowak : radical documentary praxis [redux] / David Ray Vance -- Kenneth Goldsmith -- Affect and autism : Kenneth Goldsmith's reconstitution of signal and noise / Raymond McDaniel
ISBN:
9780819567277 (alk. paper)
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
LITERATURE Ame | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | Out (Due: 5/20/2024) |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-381) and index.