Radical Artifice: Writing Poetry in the Age of Media

by Marjorie Perloff and Professor Marjorie Perloff

Book Overview

How the negotiation between poetic and media discourses takes place is the subject of Marjorie Perloff's groundbreaking study. Radical Artifice considers what happens when the "natural speech" model inherited from the great Modernist poets comes up against the "natural speech" of the Donahue "talk show," or again, how visual poetics and verse forms are responding to the languages of billboards and sound bytes. Among the many poets whose...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226657337
• ISBN13: 9780226657332
• Release Date: March 1992
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"