Writing/Talks (Poetics of the New) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0809311801 ISBN 13: 9780809311804

Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press, 1985

Synopsis

These talks represent a unique collective project with each contributing writer talking and responding to a community of peers for whom writing is a central activity rather than a cultural object. The talks range from lecture to free-for-all conversation in form and from formal analysis to new modes of non-narrative writing in subject.

Some of the writers examine their own work. Others look at the work of contem­poraries or earlier writers from Homer through Stein, Olson, and Spicer. Other subjects considered include the theories of writing and desire, feminist writing and gay writing, and the effects of the arms race on contemporary writers.

About this title

About the Author

Bob Perelman is Poet in Residence at Urban School (San Francisco) and Lecturer at the University of San Francisco. Since earning his M.F.A. degree in Poetry from the University of Iowa he has pub­lished several books of poetry and served as editor of Hills magazine.

Edition details

• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Publication date: 1985
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0809311801
• ISBN 13: 9780809311804
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304
• Editor: Perelman Bob