Reconsiders the lyrical norm that predominates in Anglophone accounts of poetry through a multilingual and transnational lens A bold project that departs from a tradition heavily dominated by the lyric to question the very nature of what counts as poetry. A visually exciting text that draws on poetry and art from a wide array of late twentieth and early twenty-first century practitioners. An interdisciplinary approach to poetry and poetics that opens new avenues for understanding how poetry intersects with philosophies of the object, media theory, and visual studies. A transnational...

Reconsiders the lyrical norm that predominates in Anglophone accounts of poetry through a multilingual and transnational lensThis book examines poets and artists in the Americas during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries to show how they worked to make language into material objects and material objects into language. It builds a theory of 'material poetics' that provides an alternative account of poetry in hemispheric America. Rebecca Kosick argues that by reframing American poetry to prominently include object-oriented practices within and beyond the United States, material...