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ISBN-10: 022619941X
ISBN-13: 9780226199412
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publish Date: 10/29/2014
Dimensions: 8.97" L, 6.13" W, 0.56" H

Poetics in a New Key: Interviews and Essays

Editor: David Jonathan y Bayot

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Price: $23.00

Overview

Marjorie Perloff writes in her preface to Poetics in a New Key that when she learned David Jonathan Y. Bayot wanted to publish a collection of her interviews and essays, she was “at once honored and mystified.” But to Perloff’s surprise and her readers’ delight, the resulting assembly not only presents an accessible and provocative introduction to Perloff’s critical thought, but also highlights the wide range of her interests, and the energetic reassessments and new takes that have marked her academic career.

The fourteen interviews in Poetics in a New Key–conducted by scholars, poets, and critics from the United States, Denmark, Norway, France, and Poland, including Charles Bernstein, Hélène Aji, and Peter Nicholls–cover a broad spectrum of topics in the study of poetry: its nature as a literary genre, its current state, and its relationship to art, politics, language, theory, and technology. Also featured in the collection are three pieces by Perloff herself: an academic memoir, an exploration of poetry pedagogy, and an essay on twenty-first-century intellectuals. But across all the interviews and essays, Perloff’s distinctive personality and approach to reading and talking resound, making this new collection an inspiring resource for scholars both of poetry and writing.

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"This book is a dynamic introduction to the avant-garde of the past 150 years, as well as to Perloff's work. Bayot's judicious selections include discussions of manifestos, conceptualism, language and translation, Robert Lowell, poetry and pedagogy, futurism, conflicting traditions, and the practice of criticism. Perloff quotes writers she admires with ease (particularly Ezra Pound, Frank O'Hara, and David Antin). Favourite axioms ('do not re-tell in mediocre verse what has already been done in good prose') recur, giving the reader a clear understanding of the thought that has influenced her. The collection reveals Perloff at her best, as she 'debates the role of various poetic movements and poets, as well as the larger relationship of poetry to culture.' She is a gifted conversationalist with a remarkable awareness of her lifetime's work, and a gratifying willingness continually to reassess her own ideas."–Rona Cran "Times Literary Supplement"
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Details

ISBN-10: 022619941X
ISBN-13: 9780226199412
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publish Date: 10/29/2014
Dimensions: 8.97" L, 6.13" W, 0.56" H
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