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Author:

Middleton, Peter, 1950-

Title:

Distant reading : performance, readership, and consumption in contemporary poetry / Peter Middleton.

Publisher:

University of Alabama Press,

Copyright Date:

c2005

Description:

xviii, 241 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

American poetry--20th century--History and criticism.
Authors and readers--United States--History--20th century.
Books and reading--United States--History--20th century.
Performing arts--United States--History--20th century.
Oral interpretation of poetry--History--20th century.
Experimental poetry, American--History and criticism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-237) and index.

Contents:

The long biography of the poem : a scene of reading -- Poetry's oral stage -- A history of the poetry reading -- Anonymous poetry -- The line-break in everyday life -- The new memoryism : reading poetry in the nineties -- Dirigibles -- Eat write.

Series:

Modern and contemporary poetics

ISBN:

9780817351519
0817351515 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780817314422
0817314423 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)55877659

LCCN:

2004014701

Locations:

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

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)