Poetics of Emergence - Affect and History in Postwar Experimental Poetry

Experimental poetry responded to historical change in the decades after World War II, with an attitude of such casual and reckless originality that its insights have often been overlooked. Poetics of Emergence argues that to ignore the scenes of self and the historical occasions captured by experimental poets during the 1950s and 1960s is to overlook a rich and instructive resource for our own complicated transition into the twenty-first century.

About the author

Benjamin Lee is associate professor of English at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. This is his first book.

Summary

Experimental poetry responded to historical change in the decades after World War II, with an attitude of such casual and reckless originality that its insights have often been overlooked. However, as Benjamin Lee argues, to ignore them is to overlook a rich resource for our own complicated transition into the twenty-first century.

Product details

• Authors: Benjamin Lee
• Publisher: University Of Iowa Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2020
• EAN: 9781609386979
• ISBN: 978-1-60938-697-9
• No. of pages: 190
• Series: Contemporary North American Poetry; Contemp North American Poetry
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies