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  • What Is A Poet?

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    This book discusses the extent of distrust and the extent of the misunderstandings that exist in the poetry world. ... Read more

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    by Hank Lazer ...
    Days involves several conflicting impulses. Many of the poems ask to be understood by being voiced, the saying of them being a process of sorting out their multiple syntactical directions, the saying of them aloud being a manifestation of their specific music. Others have key elements that can only be read silently, can only be taken in as part of a print or silent-reading experience. All of the ... Read more

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  • Radical Poetics and Secular Jewish Culture

    Series series Modern and Contemporary Poetics
    "What have I in common with Jews? I hardly have anything in common with myself!"--Franz KafkaKafka's quip--paradoxical, self-questioning, ironic--highlights vividly some of the key issues of identity and self-representation for Jewish writers in the 20th century. No group of writers better represents the problems of Jewish identity than Jewish poets writing in the American modernist tradition- ... Read more

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  • Another South

    Experimental Writing in the South

    Series series Modern and Contemporary Poetics
    Gathers the best work of flourishing but often-neglected avant-garde southern poetsAnother South is an anthology of poetry from contemporary southern writers who are working in forms that are radical, innovative, and visionary. Highly experimental and challenging in nature, the poetry in this volume, with its syntactical disjunctions, formal revolutions, and typographic playfulness, represents the ... Read more

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  • Reading the Difficulties

    Dialogues with Contemporary American Innovative Poetry

    Series series Modern and Contemporary Poetics
    The bold essays that make up Reading the Difficulties offer case studies in and strategies for reading innovative poetry.Definitions of what constitutes innovative poetry are innumerable and are offered from every quarter. Some critics and poets argue that innovative poetry concerns free association (John Ashbery), others that experimental poetry is a “re-staging” of language (Bruce Andrews) or a ... Read more

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  • The Cracks Between What We Are and What We Are Supposed to Be

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    Series series Modern and Contemporary Poetics
    The Cracks Between What We Are and What We Are Supposed to Be forms an extended consideration not only of Harryette Mullen’s own work, methods, and interests as a poet, but also of issues of central importance to African American poetry and language, women’s voices, and the future of poetry.Together, these essays and interviews highlight the impulses and influences that drive Mullen’s work as a ... Read more

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