by Hank Lazer
Northwestern University Press, 1996
Paper: 978-0-8101-1414-2 | Cloth: 978-0-8101-1413-5
Library of Congress Classification PS325.L39 1996
Dewey Decimal Classification 811.5409

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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Opposing Poetries presents a selection of Hank Lazer's writing on a range of issues in contemporary American poetry. Through a series of recurring cultural, material, and institutional perspectives, Lazer investigates the assumptions and habits that govern conflicting conceptions of contemporary American poetry, while refining, reconsidering, and questioning his own and modern theorists' assertions and claims relating to experimental poetry.

In Volume Two, Lazer presents a series of sustained readings of important experimental texts. Included are the poets Susan Howe, Lyn Hejinian, Bruce Andrews, and James Sherry. Lazer places these poets in the context of contemporary literary theory, and inspects both the successes and failures of said theory to interpret these works.