Opposing Poetries: Part One: Issues and Institutions (Volume 1) (Avant-Garde & Modernism Studies)

Lazer, Hank

ISBN 10: 0810112655 / ISBN 13: 9780810112650

Published by Northwestern University Press, 1996

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Opposing Poetries: Part One: Issues and Institutions (Volume 1) (Avant-Garde & Modernism Studies)
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0810112655
• ISBN 13: 9780810112650
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Opposing Poetries presents a selection of Hank Lazer's writing on a range of issues in contemporary American poetry. Through a series of recurring cultural, material, and institutional perspectives, Lazer investigates the assumptions and habits that govern conflicting conceptions of contemporary American poetry, while refining, reconsidering, and questioning his own and modern theorists' assertions and claims relating to experimental poetry.

Volume One examines the shift in the governing assumptions of contemporary poetic practice. Lazer inspects the key critical works addressing poetries in the 1980s and 1990s, as well as the political and aesthetic impact of modern critics, poetry reading programs, and of the publishing industry and libraries on contemporary poetic practice.

About the Author

HANK LAZER is Professor of English and Assistant Dean for Humanities and Fine Arts at the University of Alabama. He has published widely in both poetry and criticism.