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Author Bruns, Gerald L.

Title What are poets for? : an anthropology of contemporary poetry and poetics / Gerald L. Bruns.

Imprint Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2012.

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 South Windsor Public Library - Non Fiction  811.609 B83W    Check Shelf
Description xix, 222 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Series Contemporary North American poetry series
Contemporary North American poetry series.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents What are poets for? -- Should poetry be ethical or otherwise? -- Voices of construction: on Susan Howe's poetry and poetics (a citational ghost story) -- A poem about laughter and forgetting: Lyn Hejinian's A border comedy -- Among the pagans: the polyvocal poetry of Karen MacCormack -- The rogue poet's return: on John Matthias's poetic anecdotes -- Adding garbage to language: on J.H. Prynne's Not-you -- Anomalies of duration in contemporary poetry -- Nomad poetry: a ludic miscellany from Steve McCaffery -- On the conundrum of form and material: Adorno's aesthetic theory.
Subject American poetry -- 21st century -- History and criticism.
Poetics.
American poetry. (OCoLC)fst00807348
Poetics. (OCoLC)fst01067682
Chronological Term 2000-2099
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
ISBN 9781609380809 (pbk. ; acid-free paper)
1609380800 (pbk. ; acid-free paper)
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