Title: A poetics of impasse in modern and contemporary American poetry
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.
Subjects: American Experimental poetry, American poetry, History and criticism, Poetics, Poesie experimentale americaine, Poesie americaine, Stille <Motiv>, Histoire et critique, Poetique, Lyrik, American poetry, history and criticism, 20th century, American poetry, history and criticism, 21st century
Time periods: 20th century, 2lst century