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Author:

Irwin, Mark, 1953- author.

Title:

Monster : distortion, abstraction, and originality in contemporary American poetry / Mark Irwin.

Publisher:

Peter Lang,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

xviii, 208 pages ; 24 cm.

Subject:

American poetry--21st century--History and criticism.
American poetry--20th century--History and criticism.
Experimental poetry, American--History and criticism.
Literature and technology.
Poetics--History.
Originality in literature.
Abstraction in literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Preface -- Distortion in the contemporary lyric and prose poem -- Distortion and disjunction in contemporary American poetry -- Distortion within poetry, nature, culture, and media -- Poetry, reality, & place in a placeless world of global communication -- Toward a wilderness of the artificial -- Concept, hyperbole, and truth as forms of abstraction in poetry -- The poem as concept -- Three notions of truth in poetry -- Distortion, transition, and memorability in poetry -- Raising poetry to a higher power -- Poetry & memorability -- Temporal distortion & originality in poetry -- Poetry & originality: "have you been there before?" -- Origin, presence, and time in the poetry of W.S. Merwin -- Jorie Graham: kite's body and beyond -- A romp through Ruefleland: Mary Ruefle's Selected poems & Madness, rack, and honey: collected lectures -- Myth and archetype as forms of abstraction -- Orpheus, Parzival, and Bartleby: ways of abstraction in poetry.

Series:

Studies in Modern Poetry ; Vol. 21

ISBN:

1433134055
9781433134050

OCLC:

(OCoLC)960968950

LCCN:

2016031292

Locations:

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

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)