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The Marginalization of Poetry: Language Writing and Literary History
by
Bob Perelman
Language writing, the most controversial avant-garde movement in contemporary American poetry, appeals strongly to writers and theorists interested in the politics of postmodernism and in iconoclastic poetic form. Drawing on materials from popular culture, avoiding the standard stylistic indications of poetic lyricism, and using nonsequential sentences are some of the ways...more
Paperback, 224 pages
Published
July 8th 1996
by Princeton University Press
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affable execution, useful historical information, self-aware insider perspective. i think this book seems based on the premise that the difficulties of literary study are actually fun and should be cosseted, but that literary study isn't inherently difficult, and that it's actually fun to come to see it's simple. at the same time, the way the sections in verse and the general strain of creativity that runs throughout the book inform the project is kind of really radical, especially when placed i...more
The Goodreads blurb says:
"Reading this kind of writing, however, may not come easily in a culture where poetry is treated as property of a special class. It is this barrier that Bob Perelman seeks to break down in this fascinating and comprehensive account of the language writing movement."
I laughed. As if reading this kind of writing would come easily to anyone.
Having said that Perelman's book provides a good description and defence of a type of writing that needs both.
"Reading this kind of writing, however, may not come easily in a culture where poetry is treated as property of a special class. It is this barrier that Bob Perelman seeks to break down in this fascinating and comprehensive account of the language writing movement."
I laughed. As if reading this kind of writing would come easily to anyone.
Having said that Perelman's book provides a good description and defence of a type of writing that needs both.
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