Reading the Difficulties: Dialogues with Contemporary American Innovative Poetry

by Paolo Javier, Christopher Schmidt, Elizabeth Robinson, et al.

The bold essays that make up Reading the Difficulties offer case studies in and strategies for reading innovative poetry. Definitions of what constitutes innovative poetry are innumerable and are offered from every quarter. Some critics and poets argue that innovative poetry concerns free association (John Ashbery), others that experimental poetry is a "re-staging" of language (Bruce Andrews) or a syntactic and cognitive break with the past (Ron Silliman...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817357521
• ISBN13: 9780817357528
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"