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By Rachel Blau DuPlessis,Peter Quartermain,Eric Homberger,Peter Middleton,Burton Hatlen,Alan Golding,Charles Altieri,Yves di Manno,Charles Bernstein,John Seed,Michael Heller,Norman Finkelstein,Peter Nichols,Robert Franciosi,Andrew Crozier,Stephen Fredman,Min

ISBN-10: 081730973X

ISBN-13: 9780817309732

ISBN-10: 0817309748

ISBN-13: 9780817309749

"Objectivist" writers, conjoined via numerous own, ideological, and literary-historical hyperlinks, have, from the overdue Nineteen Twenties to the current, attracted emulation and suspicion. Representing a nonsymbolist, postimagist poetics and characterised by means of a old, realist, antimythological worldview, Objectivists have retained their outsider prestige. regardless of such prestige, even if, the formal, highbrow, ideological, and moral issues of the Objectivist nexus have more and more motivated poetry and poetics within the United States.

Thus, argue editors Rachel Blau DuPlessis and Peter Quartermain, the time has come for an anthology that unites crucial works on Objectivist practices and provides Objectivist writing as an expansion of the chances of poetry instead of as a determinable and definable literary flow. The authors' collective objective is to convey consciousness to this crew of poets and to exemplify and specify cultural readings for poetic texts--readings alert to the fabric international, politics, society, and background, and readings occupied with the construction, dissemination, and reception of poetic texts.

The individuals think of Basil Bunting, Lorine Niedecker, George Oppen, Carl Rakosi, Charles Reznikoff, and Louis Zukofsky inside of either their old milieu and our personal. The essays insist on poetry as a method of concept; examine and overview Objectivist politics; specialise in the moral, religious, and non secular concerns raised by means of definite Objectivist affiliations with Judaism; and discover the dissemination of poetic texts and the vagaries of Objectivist reception. working during the ebook are similar threads: Objectivist writing as often a convention conscious of its personal old and social contingency and Objectivist writing as a website of complexity, contestation, interrogation, and disagreement.

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