Nobody's business : twenty-first century avant-garde poetics

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Label

Nobody's business : twenty-first century avant-garde poetics

Title remainder

twenty-first century avant-garde poetics

Statement of responsibility

Brian M. Reed

Creator

• Reed, Brian M

Contributor

• hoopla digital

Author

• Reed, Brian M

Subject

• Experimental poetry, American -- History and criticism
• American poetry -- 21st century -- History and criticism
• Poetics -- History -- 21st century
• Electronic books

Language

eng

Summary

Since the turn of the new millennium English-language verse has entered a new historical phase, but explanations vary as to what has actually happened and why. What might constitute a viable avant-garde poetics in the aftermath of such momentous developments as 9/11, globalization, and the financial crisis? Much of this discussion has taken place in ephemeral venues such as blogs, e-zines, public lectures, and conferences. Nobody's Business is the first book to treat the emergence of Flarf and Conceptual Poetry in a serious way. In his engaging account, Brian M. Reed argues that these movements must be understood in relation to the proliferation of digital communications technologies and their integration into the corporate workplace. Writers such as Andrea Brady, Craig Dworkin, Kenneth Goldsmith, Danny Snelson, and Rachel Zolf specifically target for criticism the institutions, skill sets, and values that make possible the smooth functioning of a postindustrial, globalized economy. Authorship comes in for particular scrutiny: how does writing a poem differ in any meaningful way from other forms of "content providing"? While often adept at using new technologies, these writers nonetheless choose to explore anachronism, ineptitude, and error as aesthetic and political strategies. The results can appear derivative, tedious, or vulgar; they can also be stirring, compelling, and even sublime. As Reed sees it, this new generation of writers is carrying on the Duchampian practice of generating anti-art that both challenges prevalent definitions or art and calls into question the legitimacy of the institutions that define it

Cataloging source

Midwest

Dewey number

811/.609

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Target audience

adult