Procedural form in postmodern American poetry
Subtitle: Berrigan, Antin, Silliman, and Hejinian
By: David W. Huntsperger
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Modern and contemporary poetry and poetics; Modern and contemporary poetry and poetics
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 195
ISBN-13: 9780230622029
Description: "During the second half of the twentieth century, avant-garde American poets experimented with procedural forms - inventive, predetermined methods or rules for generating poetry. In Procedural Form in Postmodem American Poetry, David Huntsperger suggests that this mode of poetic production calls attention to the changing dynamics of intellectual labor at large. Procedural forms foreground literary labor, and in doing so, they remind us of the extent to which other forms of intellectual production have become formulaic. In this book. Huntsperger combines explication of avant-game poetry with a discussion of the rapidly changing forms of labor in the postindustrial United States."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-190) and index.