Experimental American Poetry and the New Organic Form - Life Lines

Arguing that the 19th century concept of "living form" (the idea that, like an organism, a poem develops itself from within, according to an internal logic) is not, as some critics have argued, anathema to avant-garde writing, this book contends that the concept survived and flourished in the work of a number of contemporary experimental poets. Indebted to 19th century science, the notion of a "living form" endured throughout the 20th century and the poetic vanguard''s word games and collages mirrored the disjunctive frameworks that redefined how scientists made sense of life in the age of networks and non-linear systems. Featuring readings of texts from poets including Ed Dorn, A.M.J. Crawford, P.Inman, Chris Vitiello, Yedda Morrison and Christian Bok, this book shows how a number of vanguardist poets explores the commonalities they detected between nature''s processes of creation and their own methods of composition. In doing so, it highlights devices like punning, paragrammatic play, metamorphic figuration and memetic repetition, mechanisms these poets find at work in the cybernetic, genetic and digital systems they investigate in their poems.>

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• Authors: Jo227 es, Guimar227, Joao Paulo (University College Dublin Guimaraes, João Paulo Guimarães, o Paulo
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.02.2025
• EAN: 9781350414884
• ISBN: 978-1-350-41488-4
• No. of pages: 168
• Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Critical Poetics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, Literary studies: poetry & poets, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Literary studies: from c 2000