{"product_id":"fieldworks-lytle-shaw-9780817357320","title":"Fieldworks: From Place to Site in Postwar Poetics","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFieldworks\u003c\/i\u003e offers a historical account of the social, rhetorical, and material attempts to ground art and poetry in the physicality of a site.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArguing that place-oriented inquiries allowed poets and artists to develop new, experimental models of historiography and ethnography, Lytle Shaw draws out the shifting terms of this practice from World War II to the present through a series of illuminating case studies. Beginning with the alternate national genealogies unearthed by William Carlos Williams in Paterson and Charles Olson in Gloucester, Shaw demonstrates how subsequent poets sought to ground such inquiries in concrete social formations--to in effect\u003ci\u003e live\u003c\/i\u003e the poetics of place: Gary Snyder in his back-to-the-land familial compound, Kitkitdizze; Amiri Baraka in a black nationalist community in Newark; Robert Creeley and the poets of Bolinas, California, in the capacious \"now\" of their poet-run town. Turning to the work of Robert Smithson--who called one of his essays an \"appendix to Paterson,\" and who in turn has exerted a major influence on poets since the 1970s--Shaw then traces the emergence of site-specific art in relation both to the poetics of place and to the larger linguistic turn in the humanities, considering poets including Clark Coolidge, Bernadette Mayer, and Lisa Robertson.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy putting the poetics of place into dialog with site-specificity in art, Shaw demonstrates how poets and artists became experimental explicators not just of concrete locations and their histories, but of the discourses used to interpret sites more broadly. It is this dual sense of fieldwork that organizes Shaw's groundbreaking history of site-specific poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lytle Shaw\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0817357327\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780817357320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Alabama Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/22\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 400\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d","brand":"Lytle Shaw","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43947334566143,"sku":"9780817357320","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_03be8296-2a98-4a5e-9f28-61de6481a6bd.jpg?v=1681518108","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/fieldworks-lytle-shaw-9780817357320","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}