20th Century & Contemporary
The Plasticity of Poetry
By , University of Virginia (April 2006)
Sections: 20th Century & Contemporary
Subjects: Literature, Cultural Studies, Culture.
Periods: 1000 - 1999, 1900-1999.
Key Topics: arts and architecture, poetry, language.
Abstract
This essay won the 2005 Literature Compass Graduate Essay Prize, Twentieth Century Section.
By comparing avant-garde visual poetry to the avant-garde architecture of Arakawa and Madeline Gins, this essay describes how one virtually “moves through” poetic space. Appealing to examples from L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poets Charles Bernstein, Steve McCaffery and Susan Howe and contemporary Chilean poet Cecilia Vicuña, I steer the reader through complex visual poems based on the grounds that a disruption of the reader’s sense of space has aesthetic and political implications.
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-4113.2006.00338.x
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