A Nomad Poetics: Essays

by Pierre Joris

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Powerful essays on the state and aims of contemporary poetry.

"The days of anything static--form, content, state--are over," declares poet and translator Pierre Joris in A Nomad Poetics, his first collection of critical essays. Joris maps the success and limitations of contemporary avant-garde poetics, from Tristan Tzara to the most contemporary American experimental poetry, an investigation that leads him to envision a "nomadic poetics"...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0819566462

ISBN13:9780819566461

Release Date:November 2003

Publisher:Wesleyan University Press

Length:176 Pages

Weight:0.90 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 5.5" x 8.6"

Age Range:18 years and up

Related Subjects

Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Modern (16th-21st Centuries)

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