
Poetics of Cognition
Thinking through Experimental Poems
Jessica Lewis Luck(Author)
University of Iowa Press
Will be published approx. on 14. August 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
228 pages
978-1-60938-905-5 (ISBN)
Description
"Poetics of Cognition investigates the material effects of experimental poetics using new evidence emerging from cognitive science. It asks, how do experimental poems "think," and how do we think through them? Examining experimental modes such as the New Sentence, proceduralism, projective verse, sound poetry, and visual poetry, Jessica Lewis Luck argues that experimental poems materialize not so much the content as the activity of the embodied mind, and they can thus function as a powerful scaffolding for extended cognition, both for the writer and the reader. While current critical approaches tend to describe the effects of experimentalism solely in terms of (often paralyzing) emotion and sensation, Luck shifts from the feeling to the thinking that these poems can generate, expanding the potential blast radius of experimental poetic effects into areas of linguistic, sonic, and visual processing and revealing a transformational potency that strictly affective approaches miss. The cognitive research she draws upon suggests that the strangeness of experimental poetry can, in fact, re-shape the activity of the reader's mind, creating new forms of attention, perception, and cognition. The book closes by shifting from theory to praxis, extracting forms of teaching from the forms of thinking that experimental poems instill in order to better enable their transformative effects in readers and to bring poetry pedagogy into the twenty-first century"--
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Iowa
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
20 b&w images, 1 color image, 2 b&w photos
Dimensions
Height: 213 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
363 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-60938-905-5 (9781609389055)
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Jessica Lewis Luck is professor of English at California State University, San Bernardino. She lives in Redlands, California.