by Bruce Andrews
Northwestern University Press, 1996
Paper: 978-0-8101-1308-4 | Cloth: 978-0-8101-1307-7
Library of Congress Classification PS3551.N415P37 1996
Dewey Decimal Classification 809.104

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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Paradise & Method: Poetics and Praxis collects nearly two decades of work on poetics by one of the pioneers of the "language poetry" movement.

Addressing poetics from a poet's perspective, Andrews focuses on the ways in which meaning is produced and challenged. His essays aim "to map out opportunities for making sense (or making noise)--both in reading and writing contemporary literature. At the center has been a desire to explore language, as up close as possible, as a material and social medium for restagings of meaning and power." Andrews analyzes poetics and the production of meaning; alternative traditions and canons; and innovative contemporary poetry, particularly its break with many of the premises and constraints of even the most forward-looking modernisms.