Material poetics in hemispheric America : words and objects 1950-2010 / Rebecca Kosick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kosick, Rebecca, author.

Series:

Edinburgh scholarship online.

Edinburgh scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Materialism in literature.

American poetry--20th century--History and criticism.

American poetry.

American poetry--21st century--History and criticism.

American literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

American literature.

Latin American poetry--20th century--History and criticism.

Latin American poetry.

Latin American poetry--21st century--History and criticism.

Latin American literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

Latin American literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (237 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2021.

Summary:

Rebecca Kosick examines poets and artists in the Americas during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries to show how they worked to make language into material objects and material objects into language.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of figures

Acknowledgements

Introduction: How Poetry Matters

1. The Autonomous Object of Concrete Poetry

2. Sensation, Relation and Neoconcrete Poetics

3. Assembling La nueva novela: Juan Luis Martínez and a Material Poetics of Relation

4. Concrete USA: Building Ronald Johnson’s ARK

5. Lyrica l Matters and Posthuman Poetics in Anne Carson’s Nox

Coda: The Subject of the Material Poem

Bibliography

Index

Plates

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2020.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 11, 2021).

ISBN:

1-4744-9092-1

1-4744-7462-4

OCLC:

1306538191