The Academic Avant-Garde: Poetry and the American University

by Kimberly Quiogue Andrews

Overview

From this dialectical (and sometimes polemical) standpoint, The Academic Avant-Garde reframes major characteristics of contemporary experimental literature, opens up new ways of thinking about the relationship between creative writing and literary study, and expands the horizon of possibility for engaging with and teaching the history of poetry.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781421444932
Publisher:	Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date:	01/10/2023
Pages:	280
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.98(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction. The 500-Pound Gorilla
Chapter 1. The Dream and the Deed
Chapter 2. Reading Ashbery Reading Ashbery
Chapter 3. Poetry in the Teaching Machine
Chapter 4. Citational Coding
Chapter 5. Archival Authorizations
Coda. Towards an Aesthetics of Disciplinarity
Notes
Index

What People are Saying About This

Timothy Yu

With forceful argumentation, The Academic Avant-Garde tells a compelling story about a strain of self-reflexive poetics from Stevens to the present. Andrews's ambitious study shows how moving into the institutional space of the university has brought poetry in closer contact with the scholarly outlook of the academic humanities.

Evie Shockley

This valuable study delights in close readings that tangle with and model the very knots that are its argument's subject, clarifying issues and stakes in ways that will generate productive debate.

Anthony Reed

The Academic Avant-Garde will surely excite scholars of postwar American poetry. Amid careful, attentive engagement with the poets it studies, this book shows that if the humanities are in crisis it is precisely because of the pressure they put on other developments within society.

From the Publisher

This valuable study delights in close readings that tangle with and model the very knots that are its argument's subject, clarifying issues and stakes in ways that will generate productive debate.
—Evie Shockley, author of Suddenly We

The Academic Avant-Garde will surely excite scholars of postwar American poetry. Amid careful, attentive engagement with the poets it studies, this book shows that if the humanities are in crisis it is precisely because of the pressure they put on other developments within society.
—Anthony Reed, author of Soundworks: Race, Sound, and Poetry in Production

With forceful argumentation, The Academic Avant-Garde tells a compelling story about a strain of self-reflexive poetics from Stevens to the present. Andrews's ambitious study shows how moving into the institutional space of the university has brought poetry in closer contact with the scholarly outlook of the academic humanities.
—Timothy Yu, author of Diasporic Poetics: Asian Writing in the United States, Canada, and Australia