Telling It Slant: Avant Garde Poetics of the 1990S (Modern & Contemporary Poetics) [Paperback]

Mark Wallace (Editor), Steven Marks (Editor), Harryette Mullen (Contributor), Juliana Spahr (Contributor), Charles Borkhuis (Contributor), Daniel Barbiero (Contributor), Sherry Brennan (Contributor), Jeff Derksen (Contributor), Steven Evans (Contributor), Ren Friedlander (Contributor), Christopher Finkhovser (Contributor), C. S. Giscombe (Contributor), Caroline Bergvall (Contributor), Andrew Levy (Contributor), Tan A. Lin (Contributor), Bill Luoma (Contributor), Sianne Ngai (Contributor), Jena Osman (Contributor), Kristin Prevallet (Contributor), Lisa Robertson (Contributor), Leonard Schwartz (Contributor), Rod Smith (Contributor)

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From Publishers Weekly

Telling It Slant: Avant-Garde Poetics of the 1990s collects essays on the issues driving the poetic generation just now coming to the fore. Edited by George Washington University's Mark Wallace and scholar Steven Marks, the book includes 26 pieces from Steve Evans, Harryette Mullen, Brian Kim Stefans, Kristin Prevallet, Jeff Derksen, Sianne Ngai, Caroline Bergvall, Bill Luoma, Benjamin Friedlander, C.S. Giscombe, Rod Smith, Juliana Spahr and others. Most of the pieces are short, pointed meditations, short on footnotes and long on invention. Capitalism, marginality, disjunction, graphical disruption, race and gender identification, cogent analysis, political and poetic history, disgust, exhaustion, dialogue and agonism figure prominently, often inspiringly.
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Product Details

• Paperback: 408 pages
• Publisher: University Alabama Press; 1 edition (November 28, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0817310975
• ISBN-13: 978-0817310974
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,235,897 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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