Smith, J. Mark.

Time in Time : Short Poems, Long Poems, and the Rhetoric of North American Avant-Gardism, 1963-2008. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (251 pages)

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- 1: Introduction: Poetic Form and the Rhetoric of North American Avant-Gardism, 1963-2008 -- 2: Lyric and Experimental Long Poems: Intersections -- 3: More Apparent than Real: The Lyric/Avant-Garde Divide -- 4: Hannah Weiner's Book in Air: Clairvoyant Journal and the Clair-Style Poems -- 5: The Lyric Turn: A Poetics of Falling -- 6: By the Numbers: Jackson Mac Low's Light Poems and Algorithmic Digraphism -- 7: Better Living through 'Pataphysics: The Biosemiotics of Kenneth Goldsmith -- 8: Getting Every Word In: A.R. Ammons's Garbage and the Corpora -- 9: Day Labour -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.

A look at experiment and continuity in North American poetry since the 1960s.

9780773588073


Experimental poetry, American-20th century-History and criticism.
Experimental poetry, American-21st century-History and criticism.
Experimental poetry, Canadian-20th century-History and criticism.
Experimental poetry, Canadian-21st century-History and criticism.


Electronic books.

PS325 .T56 2013

811.540911