| Opposing Poetries: Part One: Issues and Institutions Volume 1 Contributor(s): Lazer, Hank (Author) |
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ISBN: 0810112655 ISBN-13: 9780810112650 Publisher: Northwestern University Press OUR PRICE: $24.70 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 1996 Annotation: This is an examination of the shift in the governing assumptions of contemporary poetic practice. Lazer inspects the key critical works which address poetry in the 1980s and 1990s, as well as the political and aesthetic impact of modern critics, of poetry reading programs, and of the publishing industry and libraries on contemporary poetic practice. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General - Literary Criticism |
| Dewey: 811.540 |
| LCCN: 96-12315 |
| Series: Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.53" H x 5.93" W x 8.91" (0.62 lbs) 172 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Opposing Poetries presents a selection of Hank Lazer's writing on a range of issues in contemporary American poetry. Through a series of recurring cultural, material, and institutional perspectives, Lazer investigates the assumptions and habits that govern conflicting conceptions of contemporary American poetry, while refining, reconsidering, and questioning his own and modern theorists' assertions and claims relating to experimental poetry. Volume One examines the shift in the governing assumptions of contemporary poetic practice. Lazer inspects the key critical works addressing poetries in the 1980s and 1990s, as well as the political and aesthetic impact of modern critics, poetry reading programs, and of the publishing industry and libraries on contemporary poetic practice. |