Transformative Repetition in Experimental and Post-Digital Poetics
Published on 30. April 2026
Book
Hardback
240 pages
978-1-3995-5153-3 (ISBN)
Description
Transformative Repetition in Experimental and Post-Digital Poetics sheds new light on how we see repetition today by proposing a multi-faced exploration of the material and medial expressiveness of repetition in contemporary poetry. This collection brings together scholars from across different disciplines to analyse transformative repetitions in works of experimental, concrete, conceptual, digital and post-digital poetry. Linking contemporary poetics to their historical antecedents in the avant-gardes of the twentieth century, Transformative Repetition pays special attention to the expanded media boundaries that define literary practices in the twenty-first century. As such, it draws on an expanded notion of poetry to examine how repetition shapes different textual modalities in various media while challenging the traditional divides between repetition and variation, creation and replication, difference and sameness. Attentive to the relationship between form and aesthetic politics, the chapters in this volume also highlight the cultural, social and political implications of repetition.
Reviews / Votes
Repetition is intrinsic to poetry from its origins into the present, but as this remarkable anthology demonstrates, repetition is always - paradoxically - variation. The authors address changed technical and conceptual conditions for poetic production in a wide range of historical and contemporary works that use repetition as a springboard for imagination. -- Johanna Drucker, University of California, Los AngelesMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
30 b&w illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
517 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-3995-5153-3 (9781399551533)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Bruno Ministro is a Junior Research Fellow at the Institute for Comparative Literature at the University of Porto.
Content
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Repetitive Thoughts, Global Avant-Gardes
Bruno Ministro
Part I Repetition and Experimental Poetry (From the Past)
1. Deep Reading Minimal Texts: Prayers and Elegies in Off-Off Artefacts
Rui Torres
2. Broken Repetition: Difference and Its Iteration in Hansjoerg Mayer's Early Titles
Bronac Ferran
3. 'You Also Means Me'. Repetition as Creation and Deconstruction of the Self: The Case of Ketty La Rocca
Marzia D'Amico
4. The Zukofskys' Catullus as Phenomenal Repetition
Rebecca Kosick
Part II Repetition and Contemporary Poetry (Of the Present)
5. Structures in Movement: Repeating Ulises Carrion in the Twenty-First Century
Olivia Lott
6. Repetition in African American Poetry: From the Spirituals to Douglas Kearney
Lauri Scheyer
7. 'Bound by the Contrary of Ceaseless Repetition': Form and the Hold of Perseveration in Maria Cyranowicz's deepression Archive
Malgorzata Myk
8. Expanded Elegy in Victoria Chang's Obit
Julie Phillips Brown
Part III Repetition and Post-Digital Artistic Research (For the Future)
9. The Equilexical Sonnet: Insights from Study and Poetic Practice
Nick Montfort
10. Serial Writing
Felipe Cussen
11. It's Fine: An Ecopoetics of Exhaustion in Weather Writing
J. R. Carpenter
Contributors
Index
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Repetitive Thoughts, Global Avant-Gardes
Bruno Ministro
Part I Repetition and Experimental Poetry (From the Past)
1. Deep Reading Minimal Texts: Prayers and Elegies in Off-Off Artefacts
Rui Torres
2. Broken Repetition: Difference and Its Iteration in Hansjoerg Mayer's Early Titles
Bronac Ferran
3. 'You Also Means Me'. Repetition as Creation and Deconstruction of the Self: The Case of Ketty La Rocca
Marzia D'Amico
4. The Zukofskys' Catullus as Phenomenal Repetition
Rebecca Kosick
Part II Repetition and Contemporary Poetry (Of the Present)
5. Structures in Movement: Repeating Ulises Carrion in the Twenty-First Century
Olivia Lott
6. Repetition in African American Poetry: From the Spirituals to Douglas Kearney
Lauri Scheyer
7. 'Bound by the Contrary of Ceaseless Repetition': Form and the Hold of Perseveration in Maria Cyranowicz's deepression Archive
Malgorzata Myk
8. Expanded Elegy in Victoria Chang's Obit
Julie Phillips Brown
Part III Repetition and Post-Digital Artistic Research (For the Future)
9. The Equilexical Sonnet: Insights from Study and Poetic Practice
Nick Montfort
10. Serial Writing
Felipe Cussen
11. It's Fine: An Ecopoetics of Exhaustion in Weather Writing
J. R. Carpenter
Contributors
Index