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Monster: Distortion, Abstraction, and Originality in Contemporary American Poetry  argues that memorable and resonant poetry often distorts form, image, concept, and notions of truth and metaphor. Discussing how changes in electronic communication and artificial notions of landscape have impacted form and content in poetry,   Monster redefines the idea of what is memorable and original through a broad range of poets including John Ashbery, Anne Carson, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Forrest Gander, Peter Gizzi, Jorie Graham, Robert Hass, Brenda Hillman, Laura Kasischke, W. S. Merwin, Srikanth Reddy, Donald Revell, Mary Ruefle, Arthur Sze, and James Tate. “In these essays Mark Irwin moves among poems like an ecstatic bee in pollen season. No one more zealous at placing both particulars and compositions under the strong light of a concept, whether  distortion ,  transition ,  abstraction , or  time .” ―Calvin Bedient, Author,  He Do the Police in Different Voices: The Waste Land and Its Protagonist “This important work of literary and cultural criticism probes the essential issues of poetry today. For example, distortion in poetry may now be necessary to its truth-function, a b

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Author

Irwin, Mark

Publisher

Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781433140112

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Poetry, Technology