Poetry on and Off the Page: Essays for Emergent Occasions

by Marjorie Perloff

Book Overview

The fourteen essays that make up this collection have as their common theme a reconsideration of the role historical and cultural change has played in the evolution of twentieth-century poetry and poetics. Committed to the notion that, in John Ashbery's words, "You can't say it that way anymore," Poetry On & Off the Page describes the formations and transformations of literary and artistic discourses, and traces these discourses as they have...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810115611
• ISBN13: 9780810115613
• Release Date: May 1998
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 1538 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"