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by Marjorie Perloff

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In Poetic License, Marjorie Perloff insists that despite the recent interest in "opening up the canon," our understanding of poetry and poetics is all too often rutted in conventional notions of the lyric that shed little light on what poets and artists are actually doing today. On topics ranging from general problems of canonicity to the critical evaluation of such poets as Plath, Ginsberg, and others, Perloff introduces nonconventional ideas of the nature of poetic texts and reframes the discussion of postmodern "paratexts." Her discussion reformulates basic presuppositions of what poetry is and what it can do and leads us to see the great possibilities still open to lyric poetry at a time when, as Yeats predicted, "the center cannot hold."

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In 'Poetic License, ' Perloff insists that despite the recent interest in 'opening up the canon, ' our understanding of poetry and poetics is all too often rutted in conventional notions of the lyric that shed little light on what poets and artists are actually doing today.

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  • Title Poetic License: Essays on Modernist and Postmodernist Lyric
  • Author Marjorie Perloff
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 245
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Northwestern University Press, Evanston, IL
  • Publication date 1990-07
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • ISBN 9780810108448 / 0810108445
  • Weight 1.17 lbs (0.53 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.01 x 6.06 x 0.82 in (22.89 x 15.39 x 2.08 cm)
  • Category Poetry
  • Library of Congress subjects English poetry - 20th century - History and, American poetry - 20th century - History and
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 89071136
  • Dewey Decimal Code 811.040

About the author

MARJORIE PERFLOFF is the Sadie Dernham Patek professor of Humanities at Stanford University. She is the author of many books of literary criticism, including The Poetics of Indeterminacy: Rimbaud to Cage, also published by Northwestern University Press.
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