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It has been variously labelled ‘Language Poetry’, ‘Language Writing’, ‘L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E writing’ (after the magazine that ran from 1978 to 1981), and ‘language-centred writing’. It has been placed according to its geographical positions, on East or West coasts; its venues in small magazines, independent presses and performance spaces, and its descent from historical precursors, be they the Objectivists, the composers-by-field of the Black Mountain School, the Russian Constructivists or American modernism à la William Carlos Williams and Gertrude Stein. Indeed, one of the few statements that can be made about it with little qualification is that ‘it’ has both fostered and endured a crisis in representation more or less since it first became visible in the 1970s. In Poetry & Language Writing David Arnold grasps the nettle of Language poetry, reassessing its relationship with surrealism and providing a scholarly, intelligent way of understanding the movement. Poets discussed include Charles Bernstein, Susan Howe, Michael Palmer and Barrett Watten.

Language poetry. --- American poetry --- Poetry, Modern --- Surrealism (Literature) --- Surrealism in literature --- Literature --- Poetry --- History and criticism.

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Veronica Forrest-Thomson was an innovative poet and literary theorist, whose work is only now beginning to attract the attention it merits. Her aesthetic is founded on engagements with the criticism of William Empson and the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein, and develops through an early assimilation of structuralist and poststructuralist thought, including the seminal work of Roland Barthes, Julia Kristeva and Jacques Lacan. In her referentially rich poetry, Forrest-Thomson engages with the full range and history of poetry in English in her explorations of three themes: identity, the nature of experience, and the representation of both British and American contemporary poets, including those usually known as the language poets: North American writers who, since the 1970's, have explored a related poetics. This study provides the first sustained consideration of Forrest-Thomson's poetry, and of the relationships between her work and that of the language writers. It all culminates in an overview of the project of Language writing and its important contribution to contemporary 'avant-garde', and shows that Forrest-Thomson's body of work, both poetry and poetics, deserves to be considered as one of the most remarkable achievements of the late twentieth century.

Forrest-Thomson, Veronica --- Forrest-Thompson, Veronica --- Thomson, Veronica Forrest --- -Thompson, Veronica Forrest --- -Forrest, Veronica --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Language poetry. --- Poetry

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American poetry --- Avant-garde (Aesthetics) --- Experimental poetry, American --- Language poetry --- Poetics. --- History and criticism --- Theory, etc. --- History and criticism. --- Bernstein, Charles, --- Palmer, Michael, --- Howe, Susan --- Technique. --- Poetics --- Poetry --- American experimental poetry --- Aesthetics --- Modernism (Art) --- American literature --- History and criticism&delete& --- Theory, etc --- Technique

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'Dictionary Poetics' analyses book-length poems from a number of writers who have used particular editions of specific dictionaries to structure their work. The authors include Louis Zukofsky, George Oppen, Clark Coolidge, Bernadette Mayer, Tina Darragh, and Harryette Mullen.

American poetry --- English language --- Poetics. --- Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) --- Creative ability in art --- Creative ability in literature --- Art --- Imagination --- Inspiration --- Literature --- Creative ability --- Originality --- Poetry --- American literature --- History and criticism. --- Lexicography. --- Technique --- Dictionaries --- History and criticism --- Clark Coolidge. --- Dictionaries. --- George Oppen. --- Harryette Mullen. --- Language Poetry. --- Louis Zukofsky. --- Objectivism. --- Tina Darragh. --- Germanic languages

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This study offers a comprehensive examination of the work of the young poet and scholar, Veronica Forrest-Thomson (1947-1975) in the context of a literary-critical revolution of the late sixties and seventies and evaluates her work against contemporary debates in poetry and poetics. Gareth Farmer explores Forrest-Thomson’s relationship to the conflicting models of literary criticism in the twentieth century such as the close-reading models of F.R Leavis and William Empson, postructuralist models, and the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein. Written by the leading scholar on Forrest-Thomson’s work, this study explores Forrest-Thomson’s published work as well as unpublished materials from the Veronica Forrest-Thomson Archive. Drawing on close readings of Forrest-Thomson’s writings, this study argues that her work enables us reevaluate literary-critical history and suggests new paradigms for the literary aesthetics and poetics of the future.

Literature. --- Literature, Modern --- Poetry. --- British literature. --- Poetry and Poetics. --- Twentieth-Century Literature. --- Contemporary Literature. --- British and Irish Literature. --- Literature --- Belles-lettres --- Western literature (Western countries) --- World literature --- Poems --- Poetry --- Verses (Poetry) --- 20th century. --- 21st century. --- Philosophy --- Philology --- Authors --- Authorship --- Language poetry --- History and criticism. --- Forrest-Thomson, Veronica --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Forrest-Thompson, Veronica --- Thomson, Veronica Forrest --- -Thompson, Veronica Forrest --- -Forrest, Veronica --- Literature, Modern-20th century. --- Literature, Modern—20th century. --- Literature, Modern—21st century. --- European literature. --- European Literature. --- European literature