Poetics in a New Key: Interviews and Essays

by Marjorie Perloff, David Jonathan Y. Bayot (Editor)

Poetics in a New Key, a collection of interviews and essays, presents an accessible and provocative introduction to the critical thought of a most formidable and prolific critic writing now on twentieth-century poetry and poetics — Marjorie Perloff. The fourteen interviews in this volume — conducted by accomplished scholars and passionate seekers of the "new" poetics from the United States, Denmark, Norway, France, and Poland — provide a rich discussion of a spectrum of topics on poetry: its nature as a literary genre, its aesthetic preoccupations, its current state of existence, as well as its "differential" relation to art, politics, language, theory, and technology. This collection also features three essays by Perloff on matters both personal and professional: her academic memoir, poetry pedagogy, and the (re)constitution of the intellectuals in the 21st century. This book will prove to be an indispensable and inspiring resource for both scholars and poets who care to live a life of attention, on and off the page of poetry.

264 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2013

Reviews

[Ivan Labayne · Rating 4 out of 5]

maybe puts all anthologies to shame and self-repulsion, and self-awareness of self-dirtiness, of self-awareness of semi-shallowness