A Social Biography of Contemporary Innovative Poetry Communities
The Gift, the Wager, and Poethics
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Springer International Publishing AG
Published:2nd Oct '17
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
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