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Author:

Leong, Michael, 1978- author.

Title:

Contested records : the turn to documents in contemporary North American poetry / by Michael Leong.

Publisher:

University of Iowa Press,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

x, 268 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Subject:

Documentary poetry, American--History and criticism.
American poetry--20th century--History and criticism.
American poetry--21st century--History and criticism.
American poetry.
1900-2099
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction: documental poetics -- "It matters what you call a thing": documentary, investigative, conceptual, documental -- Documentation, paranoia, and aspiration: on Amiri Baraka and R.B. Kitaj -- "Work itself is given a voice": labor, deskilling, and reskilling in Kenneth Goldsmith and Mark Nowak -- The fate of late conceptualism -- Meta-publicity and the public sphere: on Claudia Rankine and Kenneth Goldsmith -- Afterword: whither poetry?

Summary:

"Why have so many contemporary poets turned to source material, from newspapers to governmental records, as inspiration for their poetry? How can citational poems offer a means of social engagement? What are the advantages and perils of appropriating text? Synthesizing research in cultural memory studies, art history, public sphere theory, and the history of the humanities, Michael Leong answers such questions as he argues that poems driven by the remixing and reframing of found texts powerfully engage with the collective ways we remember, forget, and remember again. Going well beyond Wordsworthian recollections in tranquility, authors of such research-driven and mnemotechnic work use previous inscriptions as a springboard into public intellectualism This is the first book-length study to examine conceptual writing and documentary poetry under the same cover, showing how diverse writers associated with different poetry communities have a common interest in documentation. Putting into provocative conversation writers such as Amiri Baraka, Kenneth Goldsmith, R.B. Kitaj, Mark Nowak, M. NourbeSe Philip, Vanessa Place, and Claudia Rankine, Leong analyzes a range of twenty-first-century poems that have been reviled, celebrated, or in some cases met with equally telling indifference. In doing so, Leong offers nuanced and non-polemical treatments of some of the most controversial debates about race and ethnicity in twenty-first century literary culture. Situating his objects of study within the wider context of the humanities, Leong's Extending the Document in Contemporary North American Poetry suggests nothing less than a continual extension of our conceptions of poetry"-- Provided by publisher.

Series:

Contemporary North American poetry series

ISBN:

1609386892
9781609386894

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1130764872

LCCN:

2019036763

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)