A Social Biography of Contemporary Innovative Poetry Communities

The Gift, the Wager, and Poethics

Elizabeth-Jane Burnett author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Springer International Publishing AG

Published:2nd Oct '17

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This book offers a new reading of Marcell Mauss’ and Lewis Hyde’s theories of poetry as gift, exploring poetry exchanges within 20th and 21st century communities of poets, publishers, audiences and readers operating along a gift economy.  The text considers trans-Atlantic case studies across fields of performance and ecopoetics, small press publishing and poetry institutions, with focus on Joan Retallack, Bob Holman, Anne Waldman, Bob Cobbing, and feminist performance. Elizabeth-Jane Burnett focuses on innovative poetry that resists commodification, drawing on ethnography to show parallels with gift giving tribal societies; she also considers the ethical, philosophical and psychological motivations for such exchanges with particular reference to poethics. This book will appeal to researchers in modern poetry, poetry teachers, advanced students of modern literature, and those with an interest in poetry.

ISBN: 9783319622941

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 3997g

217 pages

1st ed. 2017