Language Poetry

by Linda Reinfeld

In this book, Linda Reinfeld explores the relationship between contemporary critical theory and the new form of poetic expression--visible in the work of Charles Bernstein, Michael Palmer, and Susan Howe--called Language poetry. She holds that the experimental work of the Language poets should not be dismissed as esoteric or inaccessible.

Language poetry may be read as an American response to critical theory. It rejects both the Romantic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080711698X
• ISBN13: 9780807116982
• Release Date: February 1992
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"