
Material Poetics in Hemispheric America
Words and Objects 1950-2010
Rebecca Kosick(Author)
Edinburgh University Press
Published on 15. September 2020
Book
Hardback
240 pages
978-1-4744-7460-3 (ISBN)
Description
Reconsiders the lyrical norm that predominates in Anglophone accounts of poetry through a multilingual and transnational lens
A bold project that departs from a tradition heavily dominated by the lyric to question the very nature of what counts as poetry.A visually exciting text that draws on poetry and art from a wide array of late twentieth and early twenty-first century practitioners.An interdisciplinary approach to poetry and poetics that opens new avenues for understanding how poetry intersects with philosophies of the object, media theory, and visual studies.A transnational frame that responds to a growing scholarly push to situate American studies within the broader context of the American hemisphere.This book examines poets and artists in the Americas during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries to show how they worked to make language into material objects and material objects into language. It builds a theory of 'material poetics' that provides an alternative account of poetry in hemispheric America. Rebecca Kosick argues that by reframing American poetry to prominently include object-oriented practices within and beyond the United States, material poetry can be seen as representing a significant branch of the American poetic tradition.
A bold project that departs from a tradition heavily dominated by the lyric to question the very nature of what counts as poetry.A visually exciting text that draws on poetry and art from a wide array of late twentieth and early twenty-first century practitioners.An interdisciplinary approach to poetry and poetics that opens new avenues for understanding how poetry intersects with philosophies of the object, media theory, and visual studies.A transnational frame that responds to a growing scholarly push to situate American studies within the broader context of the American hemisphere.This book examines poets and artists in the Americas during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries to show how they worked to make language into material objects and material objects into language. It builds a theory of 'material poetics' that provides an alternative account of poetry in hemispheric America. Rebecca Kosick argues that by reframing American poetry to prominently include object-oriented practices within and beyond the United States, material poetry can be seen as representing a significant branch of the American poetic tradition.
Reviews / Votes
This is an excellent and well-timed book on an important sub-tradition within hemispheric American poetries, which breaks new ground in the study of concrete and material poetries with clarity, confidence and a great deal of critical flair. * Greg Thomas, author of Border Blurs: Concrete Poetry in England and Scotland (2019) *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
45 colour illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
499 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4744-7460-3 (9781474474603)
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Person
Rebecca Kosick is Lecturer in Translation in the Department of Hispanic, Portuguese, and Latin American Studies at the University of Bristol, where she also co-directs the Bristol Poetry Institute. She is the author of a poetry collection entitled Labor Day (Golias Books) as well as numerous articles addressing Hemispheric American poetry and art in the twentieth century and contemporary periods.
Author
Lecturer in Translation and Co-Director of the Bristol Poetry InstituteUniversity of Bristol
Content
List of illustrationsAcknowledgements Introduction How Poetry Matters
1. The Autonomous Object of Concrete Poetry
2. Sensation, Relation, and Neoconcrete Poetics
3. Assembling La Nueva Novela: Juan Luis Martinez and a Material Poetics of Relation?
4. Concrete USA: Building Ronald Johnson's Ark
5. Lyrical Matters and Posthuman Poetics in Anne Carson's Nox
Coda: The Subject of the Material PoemBibliographyIndex
1. The Autonomous Object of Concrete Poetry
2. Sensation, Relation, and Neoconcrete Poetics
3. Assembling La Nueva Novela: Juan Luis Martinez and a Material Poetics of Relation?
4. Concrete USA: Building Ronald Johnson's Ark
5. Lyrical Matters and Posthuman Poetics in Anne Carson's Nox
Coda: The Subject of the Material PoemBibliographyIndex