The Fate of Difficulty in the Poetry of Our Time

by Charles Altieri

The Fate of Difficulty in the Poetry of Our Time offers original readings of poems composed in this century--poems that are challenging to follow, challenging to understand, challenging to discuss, and challenging to enjoy. Difficult poetry of the past relied on allusion, syntactic complexity, free association, and strange juxtapositions. The new poetry breaks with the old in its stunning variety; its questioning of inherited values, labels,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810136058
• ISBN13: 9780810136052
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"