American poetry as transactional art

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Title
"American poetry as transactional art"
Statement of Responsibility
Stephen Fredman
Publisher
  • The University of Alabama Press
Publication Year
  • c2020
Book size
23 cm
Series Name / No
  • : pbk

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Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-224) and index

Summary: "American Poetry as Transactional Art explores a salient quality of much avant-garde American poetry that has so far lacked sustained treatment: namely, its role as a transactional art. Specifically Fredman describes this role as the ways it consistently engages in conversation, talk, correspondence, going beyond the scope of its own subjects and forms-its existential interactions with the outside world. Poetry operating in this vein draws together images, ideas, practices, rituals, and verbal techniques from around the globe, and across time-not to equate them, but to establish dialogue, to invite as many guests as possible to the World Party, which Robert Duncan has called the "symposium of the whole.""-- Provided by publisher

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