A Nomad Poetics: Essays

by Pierre Joris

Book Overview

"The days of anything static-form, content, state-are over," declares poet and translator Pierre Joris in A Nomad Poetics, his first collection of critical essays. Joris maps the success and limitations of contemporary avant-garde poetics, from Tristan Tzara to the most contemporary American experimental poetry, an investigation that leads him to envision a "nomadic poetics" as a strategy for new poetic work, for translation and, fundamentally, for...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0819566462
• ISBN13: 9780819566461
• Release Date: November 2003
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.6"