Long essay on the long poem, a: modern and contemporary poetics and practices
Auteur :
DuPlessis, Rachel Blau
Éditeur :
The University of Alabama Press
ISBN :
9780817360689
Date de publication :
31 mars 2023
Dimensions :
22,6 x 15,0 x 2,2 cm
Poids :
272 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
Long poems, Rachel Blau DuPlessis notes, are elusive, particularly in the slippery forms that have emerged in the postmodern mode. She cites both Nathaniel Mackey and Anne Waldman in thinking of the poem as a ‘box’, both in the sense of a vessel that contains and as a machine that processes, an instrument on which language is played.