TY - BOOK ID - 80876139 TI - Poetry and language writing PY - 2007 SN - 9781846313790 1846313791 9781781388082 1781388083 9781846311154 1846311152 PB - Liverpool Liverpool University Press DB - UniCat KW - Language poetry. KW - American poetry KW - Poetry, Modern KW - Surrealism (Literature) KW - Surrealism in literature KW - Literature KW - Poetry KW - History and criticism. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:80876139 AB - 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. ER -