Unending Design
The Forms of Postmodern Poetry
Published on 15. May 2016
336 pages
978-1-5017-0322-5 (ISBN)
Description
Drawing on the work of contemporary American poets from Ashbery to Zukofsky, Joseph M. Conte elaborates an innovative typology of postmodern poetic forms. In Conte's view, looking at recent poetry in terms of the complementary methods of seriality and proceduralism offers a rewarding alternative to the familiar analytic dichotomy of "open" and "closed" forms.
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English
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NY
United States
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978-1-5017-0322-5 (9781501703225)
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Joseph M. Conte
Content
1. Introduction
Defining a Postmodern Poetics
Seriality and Proceduralism: A Typology of Postmodern Poetry
I. SERIAL FORM
2. The Infinite Serial Form
The Unbound and the Uneven: Robert Duncan's Passages
Against the Calendar: Paul Blackburn's Journals
One Thing Finding Its Place with Another: Robert Creeley's Pieces
3. The Finite Serial Form
The Dark House: Jack Spicer's Book of Language
The Subway's Iron Circuit: George Oppen's Discrete Series
Sounding and Resounding Anew: Louis Zukotsky and Lorine Niedecker
II. PROCEDURAL FORM
4. A Predetermined Form
Renovated Form: The Sestinas of John Ashbery and Louis Zukofsky
Canonic Form in Weldon Kees, Robert Creeley, and Louis Zukofsky
5. A Generative Device
Constant and Variant: Semantic Recurrence in Harry Mathews, William Bronk, and Robert Creeley
Arbitrary Constraints and Aleatory Operations: Harry Mathews and John Cage
6. A Polemical Conclusion: The Language Poetries and the New Formalism
Notes
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