Title Poetry Matters : Neoliberalism, Affect, and the Posthuman in Twenty-First Century North American Feminist Poetics

Published Chicago : University of Iowa Press, 2018 ©2018

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Description 1 online resource (291 pages) Series Contemp North American Poetry Contemp North American Poetry Contents Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Feminist Poetics as Cultural Critique, or, Why Poetry Matters -- Part One: Economies of Flesh and Word: Biopolitics and Writing the (Posthuman) Body in Late Capitalism -- Chapter One: Strategic Embodiment: Materiality, Proceduralism, and Biopolitics in Jennifer Scappettone's From Dame Quickly, Margaret Christakos's What Stirs, and Larissa Lai and Rita Wong's sybil unrest -- Chapter Two: The Affective Politics of Disgust: Nikki Reimer's [sic] and Rachel Zolf's Human Resources -- Part Two: Poetic Matterings: New Materialist and Posthuman Feminist Ecopoetics -- Chapter Three: De/Anthropomorphizing Language: Posthuman Poetics in Yedda Morrison's Darkness and Marcella Durand's "The Anatomy of Oil -- Chapter Four: Water and Plastic: Trans-Corporeality in Rita Wong's undercurrent and Evelyn Reilly's Styrofoam -- Part Three: Geopolitics, Nationhood, Poetry -- Chapter Five: Not in Our Name: Intimacy, Affect, and Witnessing in Juliana Spahr's This Connection of Everyone with Lungs, Claudia Rankine's Don't Let Me Be Lonely, and Dionne Brand's Inventory -- Chapter Six: Post/National Feminist Poetics in Rachel Zolf's Janey's Arcadia, Jena Osman's Corporate Relations, and Jen Benka's A Box of Longing with Fifty Drawers -- Coda -- Permissions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index Notes Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources Subject American poetry -- 21st century -- History and criticism. American poetry -- Women authors -- History and criticism. Canadian poetry -- 21st century -- History and criticism. Canadian poetry -- Women authors -- History and criticism. Feminism in literature. Canadian.-bisacsh Criticism. Feminist.-bisacsh Poetry.-bisacsh Poetics -- History -- 21st century. Women and literature -- Canada. Women and literature -- United States. Genre/Form Literary criticism. Form Electronic book ISBN 9781609385781 (electronic bk)

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