Contemporary Poetry

ISBN-13: 9780748638840 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 288 str.

Nerys Williams

Opis

Discussing the work of more than 60 poets from the US, UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and the Caribbean, from Sujata Bhatt to M. Philip NourbeSe and from John Ashbery to Eliot Weinberger, Nerys Williams guides students through the key ideas and movements in the study of poetry today. With reference to original manifestos and web-based experiments, as well as the role of information culture in shaping and distributing poetry globally this book engages with the full vitality of the contemporary poetry scene.

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Lyric Subjects; 2. Politics and Poetics; 3. Performance and the Poem; 4. Environment and Space; 5. Dialects, Idiolects and Multilingual Poetries; Conclusion; Student Resources; Index.