by Steve McCaffery
Northwestern University Press, 2000
Cloth: 978-0-8101-1789-1 | eISBN: 978-0-8101-2140-9 | Paper: 978-0-8101-1790-7
Library of Congress Classification PR9190.5.M38 2001
Dewey Decimal Classification 811.509971

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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Prior to Meaning collects a decade of writing on poetry, language, and the theory of writing by one of the most innovative and conceptually challenging poets of the last twenty-five years. In essays that are wide ranging, richly detailed, and novel in their surprising juxtapositions of disparate material, Steve McCaffery works to undo the current bifurcation between theory and practice--to show how a poetic text might be the source rather than the product of the theoretical against which it must be read.