A poetics of impasse in modern and contemporary American poetry
By: Susan M. Schultz.
Series: Modern and contemporary poetics
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
Subjects: American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; American poetry -- 2lst century -- History and criticism.; Experimental poetry, American -- History and criticism.; Poetics.
Description: Addresses the problem of silence in contemporary experimental poetry and examines silence as an aesthetic strategy in itself. The result is an extended meditation on the precarious balance among competing forces in liberating poetic discourse from the realms of silence and the impasses it creates.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.