The meaning of form in contemporary innovative poetry /

This study engages the life of form in contemporary innovative poetries through both an introduction to the latest theories and close readings of leading North American and British innovative poets. The critical approach derives from Robert Sheppard's axiomatic contention that poetry is the inv...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sheppard, Robert, 1955- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, [2016]
Series:Modern and contemporary poetry and poetics.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: form, forms, and forming
  • Veronica Forrest-Thomson: Poetic artifice and naturalization in theory and practice
  • Convention and constraint: form in the innovative sonnet sequence
  • Translation as transformation: Tim Atkins' and Peter Hughes' Petrarch
  • Meddling the medieval: Caroline Bergvall and ErĂ­n Moure
  • Translation as occupation: Simon Perril and Sean Bonney
  • Rosmarie Waldrop: poetics, wild forms, and palimpsest prose
  • The trace of poetry and non-poetic: conceptual writing and appropriation in Kenneth Goldsmith, Vanessa Place, and John Seed
  • Stefan Themerson: iconopoeia and thought-experiments in the theater of semantic poetry
  • The making of the book: Bill Griffiths and Allen Fisher
  • Geraldine Monk's poetics and performance: catching form in the act
  • Form and the antagonisms of reality: Barry MacSweeney's sin signs.