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Reading the difficulties :

0817357521 (quality paper : alk. paper)

9780817357528 (quality paper : alk. paper)

9780817387204 (e book)

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Reading the difficulties :

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dialogues with contemporary American innovative poetry /

edited by Thomas Fink and Judith Halden-Sullivan

Tuscaloosa :

University of Alabama Press,

c2014

vi, 229 p. ;

23 cm

Modern and Contemporary Poetics

Includes bibliographical references and index

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? The essays in Reading the Difficulties offer case studies in and strategies for reading innovative poetry. They allow readers to interact with verse that deliberately removes many of the comfortable cues to comprehension-poetry that is frequently non-narrative, non-representational, and indeterminate in subject, theme, or message. Book jacket

American poetry-- History and criticism

Discourse analysis, Literary

Poetics

Poetry-- Explication

Fink, Thomas,1954-

Halden-Sullivan, Judith,1955-

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