Academic Avant-Garde - Poetry and the American University

The surprising story of the relationship between experimental poetry and literary studies.
Shortlisted for the MSA Book Prize by The Modernist Studies Association
In The Academic Avant-Garde, Kimberly Quiogue Andrews makes a provocative case for the radical poetic possibilities of the work of literary scholarship and lays out a foundational theory of literary production in the context of the university. In her examination of the cross-pollination between the analytic humanities and the craft of poetry writing, Andrews tells a bold story about some of today's most innovative literary works.
This pathbreaking intervention into contemporary American literature and higher education demonstrates that experimental poetry not only reflects nuanced concern about creative writing as a discipline but also uses the critical techniques of scholarship as a cornerstone of poetic practice. Structured around the concepts of academic labor (such as teaching) and methodological work (such as theorizing), the book traces these practices in the works of authors ranging from Claudia Rankine to John Ashbery, providing fresh readings of some of our era's most celebrated and difficult poets.

About the author

Kimberly Quiogue Andrews is an assistant professor of English at the University of Ottawa. She is the author of two collections of poetry, A Brief History of Fruit and BETWEEN.

Product details

• Authors: Kimberly Quiogu Andrews, Kimberly Quiogue Andrews, Kimberly Quiogue (University of Ottawa) Andrews
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2023
• EAN: 9781421444932
• ISBN: 978-1-4214-4493-2
• No. of pages: 280
• Subjects: Fiction > Gift books, albums, perpetual calendars, postcard booklets; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literature: history & criticism, Literary theory, Higher & further education, tertiary education, Higher education, tertiary education, Literary studies: poetry and poets, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Higher