Paradise and Method: Poetry and Praxis (Avant-Garde & Modernism Studies)

By Bruce Andrews

Paradise & Method: Poetics and Praxis collects nearly two decades of work on poetics by one of the pioneers of the "language poetry" movement.

Addressing poetics from a poet's perspective, Andrews focuses on the ways in which meaning is produced and challenged. His essays aim "to map out opportunities for making sense (or making noise)--both in reading and writing contemporary literature. At the center has been a desire to explore language, as up close as possible, as a material and social medium for restagings of meaning and power." Andrews analyzes poetics and the production of meaning; alternative traditions and canons; and innovative contemporary poetry, particularly its break with many of the premises and constraints of even the most forward-looking modernisms.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810113082
• ISBN13: 9780810113084
• Release Date: August 1996
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 275 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"