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Reading the Difficulties: Dialogues with Contemporary American Innovative Poetry (Modern and Contemporary Poetics) by Thomas Fink, Thomas Fink, Dr. Judith Halden-Sullivan Ph.D., Dr. Judith Halden-Sullivan Ph.D., Charles Bernstein, Carrie Conners, Kristen Gallagher, Paolo Javier, Burt Kimmelman, Hank Lazer, Jessica Lewis Luck, Stephen Paul Miller, Sheila E. Murphy, Elizabeth Robinson, Christopher Schmidt, Eileen R. Tabios is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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The bold essays that make up __Reading the Difficulties__ offer case studies in and strategies for reading innovative poetry. Definitions of what constitutes innovative poetry are innumerable and are offered from every quarter. Some critics and poets argue that innovative poetry concerns free association (John Ashbery), others that experimental poetry is a “re-staging” of language (Bruce Andrews) or a syntactic and cognitive break with the past (Ron Silliman and Lyn Hejinian). The tenets of new poetry abound. But what of the new reading that such poetry demands? Essays in __Reading the Difficulties__ ask what kinds of stances allow readers to interact with verse that deliberately removes many of the comfortable cues to comprehension—poetry that is frequently nonnarrative, nonrepresentational, and indeterminate in subject, theme, or message. Some essays in Thomas Fink and Judith Halden-Sullivan’s collection address issues of reader reception and the way specific stances toward reading support or complement the aesthetic of each poet. Others suggest how we can be open readers, how innovative poetic texts change the very nature of reader and reading, and how critical language can capt
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- Author
- Thomas Fink, Thomas Fink, Dr. Judith Halden-Sullivan Ph.D., Dr. Judith Halden-Sullivan Ph.D., Charles Bernstein, Carrie Conners, Kristen Gallagher, Paolo Javier, Burt Kimmelman, Hank Lazer, Jessica Lewis Luck, Stephen Paul Miller, Sheila E. Murphy, Elizabeth Robinson, Christopher Schmidt, Eileen R. Tabios
- Publisher
- The University of Alabama Press
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780817357528
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Philosophy, Poetry
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