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Radical Artifice: Writing Poetry in the Age of Media

Radical Artifice: Writing Poetry in the Age of Media

Perloff, Marjorie

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Poetry CriticismGeneral PoetryGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0226657345
ISBN13: 9780226657349
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: Jun 25 1994
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.93
Height: 0.68 Width: 5.96 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
How the negotiation between poetic and media discourses takes place is the subject of Marjorie Perloff's groundbreaking study. Radical Artifice considers what happens when the natural speech model inherited from the great Modernist poets comes up against the natural speech of the Donahue talk show, or again, how visual poetics and verse forms are responding to the languages of billboards and sound bytes. Among the many poets whose works are discussed are John Ashbery, George Oppen, Susan Howe, Clark Coolidge, Lyn Hejinian, Leslie Scalapino, Charles Bernstein, Johanna Drucker, and Steve McCaffery. But the strongest presence in Perloff's book is John Cage, a poet better known as a composer, a philosopher, a printmaker, and one who understood, almost half a century ago, that from now on no word, musical note, painted surface, or theoretical statement could ever again escape contamination from the media landscape in which we live. It is under his sign that Radical Artifice was composed.

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