Facebook notices and for that matter word of mouth about the latest debate or commentary
or controversy or metapoetic metaconversation (sometimes it's even attached to actual …

This is a portion of the eBook at doi: 10.7551/mitpress/5002.001. 0001 became a kind of
aesthetic lingua franca, to be promulgated in a wide range of publications in poetics—from …

Contemporary Literature XXIII, 4 0010-7484/82/0004-0411 $1.50/0? 1982 by the Board of
Regents of the University of Wisconsin System time.(2) The mode is emotive: the poem …

tions between “now" and" then'." I think this is an important reminder. We hear a great deal
these days about the “post-modern condition” or the “postmodern culture,” as if we were …

The western world is awash in poetry, and so very much of it is very bad poetry. One might
run across a lonely and sad soul‟ s breathless work posted on an Internet site for all the …

In a 1992 essay titled 'State of the Art', Charles Bernstein begins with a reflexive qualification
of his titular idea.'There is of course no state of American poetry', he thus acknowledges,'but …

Adopting artist-poet Joe Brainard as its principal focus, this project presents" Pop poetics"
not as a minor, coterie movement meriting a sympathetic footnote in accounts of the postwar …

6It appears we have managed to sidestep the predicted onslaught of millennial poems: it's
nearly two years later and poems seem no darker now, literary criticism no more brutish …