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A poetics of impasse in modern and contemporary American poetry

by Susan M. Schultz

American Experimental poetryAmerican poetryHistory and criticismPoeticsPoesie experimentale americainePoesie americaineStille <Motiv>Histoire et critique

Addresses the problem of silence in contemporary experimental poetry and examines silence as an aesthetic strategy in itself. The result is an extended meditation on the precarious balance among competing forces in liberating poetic discourse from the realms of silence and the impasses it creates.

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