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poetics & polemics 1980 2005
p poetics & polemics 1980 2005 brings together in one volume a wide ranging selection of essays and commentaries by one of the most significant poets critics and translators working with american and international poetry today . p jerome rothenbergs work spans a period of over forty years and nearly one hundred books and though perhaps best known as a poet his critical and theoretical contributions to the fields of innovative experimental poetry have become equally important facets of his work . rothenbergs earliest critical writings concerned themselves with ethnopoetics and the poetics of performance . in the last twenty years his critical thinking has evolved to encompass more explicitly issues of modernism postmodernism and the avant garde as well as meditations on the nature of the book and writing . this volume extends and elaborates all of those interests allowing for the first time a comprehensive glimpse of the full trajectory of his thinking . p in the first section poetics and polemics rothenbergs essays address a range of issues with which hes become closely associated among them the anthology as a critical and polemical tool ; the intersection of poetry with art performance and politics in both contemporary and traditional practice ; the poetics of jewish mysticism as a traditional form of conceptual and language poetry ; and the universality of poetic discourse particularly as seen in tribal poetry or in poetic traditions long separated from the western literary mainstream . in a gallery of poets is rothenbergs lively explorations of the work of other poets as they relate to his own work to avant garde poetry in general and to the poetic traditions that concern him the most . finally in dialogues and interviews are rothenbergs unbridled meditations and musings on what he calls the life of poetry outside the bounds of book and binding class and category a dynamic force at the center of all that we call human .
hardcover university of alabama press 2008 isbn13 9780817355074 isbn10 0817355073
abridged n isbn 13 9780817355074 number in series 1 number of pages 310 publisher univ of alabama pr release date 62135769600000 series title modern and contemporary poetics