A poetics of impasse in modern and contemporary American poetry
Addresses the problem of silence in contemporary experimental poetry and examines silence as an aesthetic strategy in itself. The result is an extended meditation on the precarious balance among competing forces in liberating poetic discourse from the realms of silence and the impasses it creates.
American Experimental poetryAmerican poetryHistory and criticismPoeticsPoesie experimentale americainePoesie americaineStille <Motiv>Histoire et critiquePoetiqueLyrikAmerican poetry, history and criticism, 20th centuryAmerican poetry, history and criticism, 21st century