| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
176 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
Akron series in contemporary poetics |
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Akron series in contemporary poetics.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
This book takes a snapshot of a moving target: the ever-shifting conversation about today's poetry. The ten essays in this collection offer reflections and insights, practical advice for craft matters, and provocative points of departure for those who read and write poetry.--[book cover] |
| Contents |
The discursive situation of poetry / Robert Archambeau -- The moves : common maneuvers in contemporary poetry / Elisa Gabbert -- An aesthetics of accumulation : on the contemporary litany / Michael Dumanis -- Cornucopia, or, contemporary American rhyme / Stephen Burt -- I am one of an infinite number of monkeys named Shakespeare, or, why I don't own this language / Benjamin Paloff -- Persona and the mystical poem / Elizabeth Robinson -- A wilderness of monkeys / David Kirby -- Hybrid aesthetics and its discontents / Arielle Greenberg ... [et al.] -- Response to hybrid aesthetics and its discontents / Cole Swensen -- Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye : notes on the ends of poems / Joy Katz. |
| Subject |
Poetics -- History -- 20th century.
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Poetics -- History -- 21st century.
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American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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American poetry -- 21st century -- History and criticism.
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| Added Author |
Biddinger, Mary.
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Gallaher, John, 1965-
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| ISBN |
9781931968911 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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1931968918 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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