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What Are Poets For?: An Anthropology of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics

What Are Poets For?: An Anthropology of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics

Bruns, Gerald L.

Paperback

Series: Contemp North American Poetry

Literary CriticismPoetry Criticism

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ISBN10: 1609380800
ISBN13: 9781609380809
Publisher: Univ Of Iowa Pr
Published: Jun 1 2012
Pages: 260
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Conceptions and practices of poetry change not only from time to time and from place to place but also from poet to poet. This has never been more the case than in recent years. Gerald Bruns's magisterial What Are Poets For? explores typographical experiments that distribute letters randomly across a printed page, sound tracks made of vocal and buccal noises, and holographic poems that recompose themselves as one travels through their digital space. Bruns surveys one-word poems, found texts, and book-length assemblies of disconnected phrases; he even includes descriptions of poems that no one could possibly write, but which are no less interesting (or no less poetic) for all of that. The purpose of the book is to illuminate this strange poetic landscape, spotlighting and describing such oddities as they appear, anomalies that most contemporary poetry criticism ignores.

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