
Contemporary Visual Poetry
Women Writing the Posthuman
Fiona Becket(Author)
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 14. September 2025
Book
Hardback
220 pages
978-1-032-23163-1 (ISBN)
Description
This book examines contemporary visual poetry and how conceptual writing, poem-objects, and computational texts shape a posthumanist understanding that is "situated". First, the eye is theorised with respect to ethical understanding. When visual poets reclaim vision, visual poetics becomes a feminist praxis. In Paula Claire and Maggie O'Sullivan, visual poetry becomes an ecological practice concerned with connectivity in the entanglements of natureculture. In O'Sullivan, Campanello, Bergvall, and Philip, spatial and temporal sense (de)formation sustains radical forms of voicing and eyewitness. Finally, works by Mez Breeze and Stephanie Strickland expand our understanding of visual poetry in digital (electronic, virtual reality, and artificial intelligence) contexts in which technology and affect are intimately connected. These visual texts open up Braidotti's question with respect to how we are to "visualize the subject as a transversal entity encompassing the human, our genetic neighbours the animals and the earth as a whole, and to do so within an understandable language".
Reviews / Votes
Contemporary Visual Poetics not only offers an important rethinking of the history of "extended poetics," as its author Fiona Becket names it, but breaks essential new ground across technologies which many critics still feel unsure of how to read. This book provides a vocabulary and a profound understanding of "posthuman" existence played out in the avant-garde poem, mapping new ways that such work is impacting its society and environment. Becket's connection of her core investigation to ecocritical thinking - and therefore our current (we hope not final) emergencies - also makes this intervention timely, even urgent.--Romana Huk, Associate Professor, University of Notre Dame, USA
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Postgraduate
Illustrations
10 s/w Abbildungen, 10 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder
10 Halftones, black and white; 10 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
493 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-032-23163-1 (9781032231631)
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Person
Fiona Becket is professor of contemporary poetics in the School of English, University of Leeds. She has written books and articles on aspects of modernist literature, visual poetry, and poetics.
Content
Acknowledgements
Illustrations
Chapter 1 Introduction Reclaiming Vision
Chapter 2 Textual Bodies: Visual Poetry as Feminist Praxis
Chapter 3 The "Multiple Body": Visual Poetry's Natural Histories
Chapter 4 Eye Witness and the Curated Language of Others
Chapter 5 Computational Environments and the Extended Poet
Bibliography
Index
Illustrations
Chapter 1 Introduction Reclaiming Vision
Chapter 2 Textual Bodies: Visual Poetry as Feminist Praxis
Chapter 3 The "Multiple Body": Visual Poetry's Natural Histories
Chapter 4 Eye Witness and the Curated Language of Others
Chapter 5 Computational Environments and the Extended Poet
Bibliography
Index