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Poetic License

Name: Poetic License
Author: Perloff
ISBN: 9780810108431

by Perloff

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Overview

In 'Poetic License, ' Perloff insists that despite the recent interest in 'opening up the canon, ' our understanding of poetry and poetics is all too often rutted in conventional notions of the lyric that shed little light on what poets and artists are actually doing today.

About the Author, Perloff

Marjorie Perloff is the Sadie Dernham Patek professor of Humanities at Stanford University. She is the author of many books of literary criticism, including The Poetics of Indeterminacy: Rimbaud to Cage, also published by Northwestern University Press.