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American poetry --- American poetry. --- Language poetry. --- 1900-1999.

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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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Romance-language poetry --- Romance languages --- Poésie romane --- History and criticism. --- Versification --- Histoire et critique

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Irish poetry --- History and criticism --- Theory, etc --- Muldoon, Paul --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Language poetry

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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