| Description |
1 online resource (211 pages) : 1 color illustration |
| Contents |
Preface -- 1. Ingrown Expressionism : On Frances Kruk and Verity Spott -- 2. Strong Language : On Lucy Beynon and Lisa Jeschke -- 3. Class Separation vs. Separation Anxiety : A Brief Psychotic Interlude -- 4. Transgression for Anti-Fascists : On Verity Spott -- 5. World History's Teenage Diaries : On Lisa Jeschke -- 6. Poetry and Self-Defense : On Xu Lizhi and Nat Raha -- 7. Wound Building : On T.S. Eliot, Amiri Baraka, Bernadette Mayer, and Keston Sutherland -- 8. Mood Music for Wound Building (Some Working Notes on Immediacy) -- 9. "Language is for Fucking Idiots" : On Porpentine Charity Heartscape -- 10. Letter to Lotte L.S. : On Sean Bonney. · |
| Summary |
"Wound Building is a volume of essays, with digressions, on one group of contemporary poets active in a self-organizing political poetry scene in the UK, most of whom have little to no audience outside of the little magazines that they publish and the reading series they put on. The book is a front-line report on the rapid development of this poetry in the period between 2015 and 2020, with a particular focus on the relationship of poetry to violence and its representation ... Ultimately, Hayward argues that the lessons this poetry teaches is never to write a "worthy" narrative when a fucked up collage will do. Rather than a cohesive "account" of a "school" of poets, or a "contribution" to the boring tittle-tattle of aesthetic debates over British poetry as an institution, Wound Building is a front-line report on the local disasters of a contemporary UK poetry caught in the grip of the historical cataclysm of capitalist culture. Wound Building is further concerned with aesthetic problems related to Marxism, anarchism, contemporary trans politics, and class, though its "theoretical" preoccupations are subordinated to its desire to provide a ground-level view on the writing itself, its production, its intellectual aporia, and the ways it finds itself outstripped by the ongoing "march of events" ... "--From publisher's description |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-211) |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource, viewed November 1, 2021 |
| Subject |
Political poetry, English -- 21st century -- History and criticism
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Experimental poetry, English -- 21st century -- History and criticism
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Socialist literature -- Great Britain -- 21st century -- History and criticism
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Political violence in literature.
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Experimental poetry, English
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Political poetry, English
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Political violence in literature
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Socialist literature
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
essays.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Essays
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Literary criticism
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Essays.
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Literary criticism.
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Essais.
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Critiques littéraires.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781685710019 |
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1685710018 |
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