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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788353003321

Autore

Nichols Miriam

Titolo

Radical affections [[electronic resource] ] : essays on the poetics of outside / / Miriam Nichols

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2010

ISBN

0-8173-8441-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (368 p.)

Collana

Modern and contemporary poetics

Disciplina

811/.540932

Soggetti

American poetry - 20th century - History and criticism - Theory, etc

American poetry - 21st century - History and criticism - Theory, etc

Experimental poetry - 20th century - History and criticism - Theory, etc

Experimental poetry - 21st century - History and criticism - Theory, etc

Poetics

Versification

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : how to walk on the slippery earth -- Charles Olson : architect of place -- Robert Creeley : occasional verse -- Robert Duncan : master of rime -- Jack Spicer : castle of skin and glass -- Robin Blaser : the practice of outside -- Susan Howe : a special view of history.

Sommario/riassunto

In 1950 the poet Charles Olson published his influential essay "Projective Verse" in which he proposed a poetry of "open field" composition-to replace traditional closed poetic forms with improvised forms that would reflect exactly the content of the poem.      The poets and poetry that have followed in the wake of the "projectivist" movement-the Black Mountain group, the New York School, the San Francisco Renaissance, and the Language poets-have since been studied at length. But more often than not they have been studied through the lens of continental theory wit