Poetry & Language Writing : Objective and Surreal Hardback
by David Arnold
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It has been variously labelled 'Language Poetry', 'Language Writing', 'L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E writing' (after the magazine that ran from 1978 to 1981), and 'language-centred writing'.
It has been placed according to its geographical positions, on East or West coasts; its venues in small magazines, independent presses and performance spaces, and its descent from historical precursors, be they the Objectivists, the composers-by-field of the Black Mountain School, the Russian Constructivists or American modernism a la William Carlos Williams and Gertrude Stein.
Indeed, one of the few statements that can be made about it with little qualification is that 'it' has both fostered and endured a crisis in representation more or less since it first became visible in the 1970s.
In Poetry & Language Writing David Arnold grasps the nettle of Language poetry, reassessing its relationship with surrealism and providing a scholarly, intelligent way of understanding the movement.
Poets discussed include Charles Bernstein, Susan Howe, Michael Palmer and Barrett Watten.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:213 pages
- Publisher:Liverpool University Press
- Publication Date:01/11/2007
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- ISBN:9781846311154
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:213 pages
- Publisher:Liverpool University Press
- Publication Date:01/11/2007
- Category:
- ISBN:9781846311154
