{"product_id":"questions-of-poetics-barrett-watten-9781609384302","title":"Questions of Poetics: Language Writing and Consequences","description":"\u003ci\u003eQuestions of Poetics \u003c\/i\u003eis Barrett Watten's major reassessment of the political history, social formation, and literary genealogy of Language writing. A key participant in the emergent bicoastal poetic avant-garde as poet, editor, and publisher, Watten has developed, over three decades of writing in poetics, a sustained account of its theory and practice. The present volume represents the core of Watten's critical writing and public lecturing since the millennium, taking up the historical origins and continuity of Language writing, from its beginnings to the present. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Each chapter is a theoretical inquiry into an aspect of poetics in an expanded sense--from the relation of experimental poetry to cultural logics of liberation and political economy, to questions of community and the politics of the avant-garde, to the cultural contexts where it is produced and intervenes. Each serves as a kind of thought experiment that theorizes and assesses the consequences of Language writing in expanded fields of meaning that include history, political theory, art history, and narrative theory. While all are grounded in a series of baseline questions of poetics, they also polemically address the currently turbulent debates on the politics of the avant-garde, especially Language writing, among emerging communities of poets. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In manifold ways, Watten masterfully demonstrates the aesthetic and political aims of Language writing, its influence on emerging literary schools, and its present aesthetic, critical, and political horizons. \u003ci\u003eQuestions of Poetics \u003c\/i\u003ewill be a major point of reference in continuing debates on poetry and literary history, a critical reexamination for already familiar readers and a clearly presented introduction for new ones. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Barrett Watten\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 160938430X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781609384302\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Iowa Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/01\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.90d","brand":"Barrett Watten","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47135384568063,"sku":"9781609384302","price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_de471648-115d-40f0-bf0c-62adca5c2bec.jpg?v=1755009985","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/questions-of-poetics-barrett-watten-9781609384302","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}