Inciting poetics : thinking and writing poetry / edited by Jeanne Heuving and Tyrone Williams.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Heuving, Jeanne, 1951- editor.

Williams, Tyrone, editor.

Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Series:

Recencies

Recencies series: Research and recovery in twentieth-century American poetics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetics.

Poetry--Authorship.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

xxi, 244 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2019.

Summary:

The essays in Inciting poetics provide a variety of provocative answers to the book's opening question, "What are the poetics now?" Authored by some of the most important contemporary poets and critics, the essays present new theoretical and practical approaches to poetry and poetics that address current topics and approaches in the field as well as provide fresh readings of a number of canonical poets. The four sections - "What is poetics?", "Critical interventions", "Cross-cultural imperatives", and "Digital, capital, and institutional frames" - create a basis on which both experienced readers and newcomers can build an understanding of how to think and write about poetry. The diverse voices throughout the collection are both informative and accessible and offer a rich exploration of the multiple approaches to thinking and writing about poetry today.

Contents:

Introduction

Part 1. What is poetics?

An art of addition, an Eddic return

Statement on poetics: pleasures, polemics, practices, stakes

From Late Arcade

Part 2. Critical interventions

Poetics today

The material and medium of language

Toward transformation: the contextual turn in US poetry

"To make from outrage islands of compassion": Denise Levertov's bridge-poetics of eye-witnessing in the context of her friendship with Robert Duncan

Part 3. Cross-cultural imperatives

Ethnos and graphos

White mischief: language, life, logic, luck, and white people

Transcendental tabby

Part 4. Digital, capital, and institutional frames

The codex is broken

Empire aesthetics: it's not the point, it's the platform - Detroit model

Now that's a poem

Vito Acconci, conceptual writing, and poetic nominalism

Coda. The united divisions of poetry.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Inciting poetics

ISBN:

9780826360465

0826360467

OCLC:

1057661172