Poetic machinations : allegory, surrealism, and postmodern poetic form /

The shape, lineation, and prosody of postmodern poems are extravagantly inventive, imbuing their form with as much meaning as their content. Through a survey of American poetry and poetics from the end of World War II to the present, Michael Golston traces the proliferation of these experiments to a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Golston, Michael
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, 2015.
Online Access:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1064693
Table of Contents:
  • ""Table of Contents ""; ""Polemical Preface ""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction: Etymologies, 1980â€?the Allegorical Moment""; ""1. Entomologies: Louis Zukofsky and Lorine Niedecker""; ""2. Epistemologies: Clark Coolidge""; ""3. A=L=L=E=G=O=R=I=E=S: Peter Inman, Myung Mi Kim, Lyn Hejinian""; ""4. Semiologies: Susan Howe ""; ""5. Fictocritical Postlude: The Melancholy of Conceptualism""; ""Notes""; ""Works Cited""; ""Index""