What Are Poets For?: An Anthropology of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics

by Gerald L. Bruns

Conceptions and practices of poetry change not only from time to time and from place to place but also from poet to poet. This has never been more the case than in recent years. Gerald Bruns's magisterial What Are Poets For? explores typographical experiments that distribute letters randomly across a printed page, sound tracks made of vocal and buccal noises, and holographic poems that recompose themselves as one travels through their digital...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1609380800
• ISBN13: 9781609380809
• Release Date: June 2012
• Publisher: University of Iowa Press
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"