21st-Century Modernism: The "New" Poetics / Perloff, Marjorie ; Altieri C ; Andrews B ; Antin D ; Apollinaire G ; Arnheim R ; Ashbery J ; Bernstein C ; Blaser R ; Bok C ; Cage J ; Drucker J ; Duchamp M ; Ginsberg A ; Hamilton R ; Henderson L ; Hejinian L ; Howe S ; Janecek G ; Joyce J ; Khlebnikov V ; Kruchenykh A ; MacLow J ; McCaffery S ; Malevich K ; Marinetti FT ; Mayakovsky V ; Phillips T ; Pound E ; Silliman R ; Stein G ; Schwarz A ; Waldrop R ; Werschler-Henry D ; Wittgenstein L ; Yeats WB ; Zukofsky L ; Eliot TS ; DeCampos A ; DeCampos H., 2002
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L. "les193" Amazon.com: Perloff is one of the great boosters of the 'alternative modernists' -- the theme of this book -- and spends a good deal of time in the trenches, doing polemical readings of recent poets in the avant-garde. Lyn Heijnian versus, e.g., Seamus Heaney -- Perloff wants radical approaches, and she finds the best of those who'll never be reviewed in the New York Times because of their newness. Maybe fifty years from now, the Times will pretend that, of course, we all knew they were great from the start. Obscure to god-like, with no intervening step. In contrast to some of the avant-garde LANGUAGE types, Perloff is fair and low BS when it comes to her criticism (constrast Charles Bernstein's insufferable Poetics.) Her close readings are in the style of someone like Helen Vendler (although Perloff and Vendler are near-contemporaries, so it's unlikely that one's derivative of the other.) There aren't many people who can write with such acuity -- the only thing worse today than most poetry is the criticism of it.The chapter on Stein is brilliant, and it's moving to see Stein get the treatment that she would have wanted and that she deserves -- careful, intelligent and defiantly untrendy. She makes Tender Buttons -- something I had never appriciated -- come right off the page. Anonymous Amazon.com: I find the basic thesis of this book--that early Modernism is still with us--wholly convincing, but what's best here is the choice of four such different poets--Eliot, Stein, Duchamp, and Khlebnikov as precursors of our own poetry. The chapter on Duchamp asks the question Duchamp himself asked, Can one make works which are not works of art?" and shows what that means in terms of avant-garde aesthetic. The last chapter is dismissive (but not excessively so) of some mainstream Americans and then makes a strong case for the terrific innovations of four exemplary poets: Susan Howe, Charles Bernstein, Steve McCaffery, and Lyn Hejinian. Even if you don't agree with Perloff's overall thesis, you'll love the details and extremely lucid readings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Dates
- Creation: 2002
Creator
- Perloff, Marjorie (Person)
Extent
0 See container summary (1 soft cover book (222 pages)) ; 22.7 x 15.1 x 1.8 cm
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
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Custodial History
The Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, on loan from Ruth and Marvin A. Sackner and the Sackner Family Partnership.
General
Published: Malden, Massachusetts : Blackwell Publishers. Nationality of creator: American. General: Added by: MARVIN; updated by: MARVIN.
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