Omnicompetent Modernists - Poetry, Politics, and the Public Sphere

About the author

Matthew Hofer is professor of English at the University of New Mexico and edits the series Recencies: Research and Recovery in Twentieth-Century American Poetics. He is coeditor of many volumes, including expanded facsimile editions of LEGEND and L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E as well as The Language Letters: Selected 1970s Correspondence of Bruce Andrews, Charles Bernstein, and Ron Silliman.

Summary

“It is difficult / to get the news from poems / yet men die miserably every day / for lack / of what is found there”, as the poet William Carlos Williams memorably declared. Matthew Hofer examines, through a multilayered literary critique of interwar modernist poetry, what it might mean to get the news, and more, from a poet.

Product details

• Authors: Matthew Hofer
• Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.2022
• EAN: 9780817360610
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-6061-0
• No. of pages: 282
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 228 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 386 g
• Series: Modern & Contemporary Poetics; Modern and Contemporary Poetic
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies