num_pages: 275
description: Paradise &amp; Poetics and Praxis collects nearly two decades of work on poetics by one of the pioneers of the "language poetry" movement.Addressing poetics from a poet's perspective, Andrews focuses on the ways in which meaning is produced and challenged. His essays aim "to map out opportunities for making sense (or making noise)--both in reading and writing contemporary literature. At the center has been a desire to explore language, as up close as possible, as a material and social medium for restagings of meaning and power." Andrews analyzes poetics and the production of meaning; alternative traditions and canons; and innovative contemporary poetry, particularly its break with many of the premises and constraints of even the most forward-looking modernisms.
language: English
title: Paradise and Method: Poetry and Praxis
titlecomplete: Paradise and Method: Poetry and Praxis (Avant-Garde & Modernism Studies)
genres: Philosophy, Poetry
ratings_count: 14
series: Avant-Garde & Modernism Studies
publisher: Northwestern University Press