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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"experimental poetry"”.
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Radical dialectics in the experimental poetry of Berssenbrugge, Hejinian, Harryman, Weiner, and Scalapino
… I focus on the work of five contemporary experimental poets - Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Lyn Hejinian, Carla Harryman, Hannah Weiner, and Leslie Scalapino - in order to demonstrate various aspects of a philosophical dynamic at work in their poetry. The critical debates surrounding experimental …
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Writing on the margins : the experimental poetry of Lyn Hejinian, Yang Lian and Arkadii Dragomoshchenko
… microanalytic research on the social situation, poetry and artistic intentions of Lyn Hejinian, Yang Lian 楊煉 and Arkadii Dragomoshchenko, three experimental poets whose work pushed the boundaries of poetry within their respective countries, the United States, China and the Soviet Union, from the …
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Before You Become Improbable
<p>Before You Become Improbable is a poetry collection that tackles issues as various as marriage, parenting, death, art, illness, and the workplace, using a mixture of formal and experimental poetry. The collection eschews sections, instead letting the poems coalesce naturally around seasonal …
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Expansive Hybridity: Multilingual and Visual Poetics in Contemporary Experimental Asian American and Pacific Islander Poetry
… traction in literary analyses of contemporary experimental poetry, there is a notable divide within scholarly discourse wherein its uses pertain to either form or content. The term has been used by literary critics and anthologists to categorize works of poetry that combine formal techniques …
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Yiddish and the Avant-Garde in American Jewish Poetry
… of Yehoash's Yiddish translations of Japanese poetry in his own English epic, written in dialogue with Ezra Pound. It concludes with an examination of the Language poets of the 1970s, particularly Charles Bernstein's experimental verse, which explores the way that language shapes consciousness …
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"Sometime There is Breath": Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons as Maternal Lexicon
A study of Gertrude Stein's poetry collection Tender Buttons, this thesis uncovers and explores the text's covert maternal trope. Although Stein staunchly evaded categorization as a feminist, the employment of maternal imagery and the exploration of a language predicated by the feminine space of …
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Spelling violation: writing bodies from the margins
… to survival and "a living." From Romantic era poetry to present day comics, I seek particular strategies of those who create within language that has proved potently injurious to them. These are writers shaped by material and linguistic violation---sexism, homophobia, political and military …
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'I am indebted to everyone': Susan Howe's Inheritance
… the thesis is also a study of the interaction of experimental poetry with live and time-based art, and of the process of collaboration. Each chapter explores a different category of possessing or perceiving something in common with another—synchronicity, likeness, and repetition—to argue that …
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On Combustion: Contemporary British Poetry and the Pyrocene (1990-2017)
… and fire across a range of contemporary works of experimental British poetry in the period 1990-2017 (particularly those arising from the so-called ‘Cambridge School’). It argues that this body of texts proves exceptionally sensitive to registering and evaluating the cultural traces left by …
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Black Lake
… as a creative non-fiction essay, chapbook of poetry and video installation art piece, meditating on grief, loss, and the tenth anniversary of my father’s suicide. Born from a collection of poems, the works are intimate yet leave room for the reader to breathe and map their own personal …
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You Have the Body: An Anti-Testimony
This thesis contains two parts: a craft essay titled “Shapes of Refusal: The Anti-Testimony and Realizing Hope through Form” and a multi-modal manuscript consisting of hybrid poetic forms titled You Have the Body: An Anti-Testimony. The creative writing manuscript is a re-imagining of admissible …
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Nonfiction forms in contemporary poetry by Black and Asian American Writers
<p>Writers experiment with form inside poetry for various reasons, including a desire for play. Creating poetry is a creative process that involves experimentation. This research highlights poetry that adapts established nonfiction forms into poetry forms, examining poetry published in 2000-2024 by …