What are poets for?
Subtitle: an anthropology of contemporary poetry and poetics
By: Gerald L. Bruns
Series: Contemporary North American poetry series
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Iowa City
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781609380809
Subjects: Poetics; History and criticism; American poetry
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: What are poets for?; title: Should poetry be ethical or otherwise?; title: Voices of construction: on Susan Howe's poetry and poetics (a citational ghost story); title: A poem about laughter and forgetting: Lyn Hejinian's A border comedy; title: Among the pagans: the polyvocal poetry of Karen MacCormack; title: The rogue poet's return: on John Matthias's poetic anecdotes; title: Adding garbage to language: on J. H. Prynne's Not-you; title: Anomalies of duration in contemporary poetry; title: Nomad poetry: a ludic miscellany from Steve McCaffery; title: On the conundrum of form and material: Adorno's aesthetic theory.