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Unending Design: The Forms of Postmodern Poetry

Unending Design: The Forms of Postmodern Poetry

by Joseph M. Conte
Unending Design: The Forms of Postmodern Poetry
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Unending Design: The Forms of Postmodern Poetry

Unending Design: The Forms of Postmodern Poetry

by Joseph M. Conte

Overview

Drawing on the work of contemporary American poets from Ashbery to Zukofsky, Joseph M. Conte elaborates an innovative typology of postmodern poetic forms. In Conte's view, looking at recent poetry in terms of the complementary methods of seriality and proceduralism offers a rewarding alternative to the familiar analytic dichotomy of "open" and "closed" forms.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781501703225
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication date: 05/15/2016
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 336
File size: 1 MB
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Joseph M. Conte is Professor of English at the University at Buffalo. He is the author of Unending Design: The Forms of Postmodern Poetry and Design and Debris: A Chaotics of Postmodern American Fiction.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction Defining a Postmodern Poetics Seriality and Proceduralism: A Typology of Postmodern Poetry I. SERIAL FORM 2. The Infinite Serial Form The Unbound and the Uneven: Robert Duncan's Passages Against the Calendar: Paul Blackburn's Journals One Thing Finding Its Place with Another: Robert Creeley's Pieces 3. The Finite Serial Form The Dark House: Jack Spicer's Book of Language The Subway's Iron Circuit: George Oppen's Discrete Series Sounding and Resounding Anew: Louis Zukotsky and Lorine Niedecker II. PROCEDURAL FORM 4. A Predetermined Form Renovated Form: The Sestinas of John Ashbery and Louis Zukofsky Canonic Form in Weldon Kees, Robert Creeley, and Louis Zukofsky 5. A Generative Device Constant and Variant: Semantic Recurrence in Harry Mathews, William Bronk, and Robert Creeley Arbitrary Constraints and Aleatory Operations: Harry Mathews and John Cage 6. A Polemical Conclusion: The Language Poetries and the New Formalism Notes Index
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