English 468/568: Reading Experiments

This book explores the ways in which hybrid poetics-a playful mixing of disparate formal and aesthetic strategies-have been the driving force in the work of a historically and culturally diverse group of women poets who are part of a robust tradition in contesting the dominant cultural order. **See Chapter 5: "Claudia Rankine's Don't Let Me Be Lonely: A Lyrical Long Poem in a Post-Language Age"

Quickly equips readers with the strategies to understand and deepen their engagement with individual poems. Includes explanation of poetic forms such as sound effects, rhythm and metre, the typographic display of poems on the page and the language of poetry.

In this highly original reexamination of North American poetry in English from Ezra Pound to the present day, Christopher Nealon demonstrates that the most vital writing of the period is deeply concerned with capitalism. **See Chapter 4: "Bubble and Crash: Poetry in Late- Late Capitalism"