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Poetry - General & Miscellaneous, English Poetry - 20th Century - Literary Criticism, 20th Century American Literature - Post WWII - Literary Criticism, Postmodernism - Literary Movements, 20th Century Irish Fiction & Prose Literature - Literary Criticism
Assembling Alternatives brings together five English-speaking communities — the U.S., U.K., Canada, Ireland and Australia — to discuss how national differences have inflected poetic experimentation. The 24 essays provide historic overviews, close readings, personal views and polemics on poetics as they have developed in situ. These "oppositional poetries" and poetics are highly diverse and can only be unified — as they are here — as an imagined collective alternative to a mainstream and institutionalized practice of poetry. By tracing the varied histories and trajectories of innovative poetry in these countries, and by engaging in readings of specific texts from within these traditions, Assembling Alternatives suggests subtle but provocative differences in strategies of resistance, constructions of self, use of voice and use of technology.
Synopsis
First anthology to examine the national borders of postmodern poetry.
By far the most intelligent collection of essays on contemporary postmodern poetries available.
About the Author, Romana Huk
Romana Huk is Associate Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame. She is co-editor of Contemporary British Poetry: Essays in Theory and Criticism (1996), and author of a forthcoming book on Stevie Smith as well as numerous essays on contemporary poetics.
