{"product_id":"9781587298677","title":"Thinking Poetry: Readings in Contemporary Womenis Exploratory Poetics","description":"\u003cp\u003eAs the twentieth century drew to a close, experimentalism in American poetry was most commonly identified with Language writing. At the same time, however, a number of poets, many of them women, were developing their own alternative forms of experimentalism, creating “uncommon languages” often indebted to Language writing but distinct from it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e      With impressive intellectual engagement and nuanced presentation, \u003ci\u003eThinking Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e provides a meticulous and provocative analysis of the ways in which Alice Fulton, Myung Mi Kim, Joan Retallack, Cole Swensen, Rosmarie Waldrop, Susan Wheeler, and C. D. Wright explored varied compositional strategies and created their own innovative works. In doing so, Lynn Keller resourcefully models a range of reading strategies that will assist others in analyzing the complex epistemology and craft of recent “exploratory” writing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e       The seven women whose work is discussed here demonstrate widely differing ways of using poetry to, as Swensen puts it, “stretch the boundaries of the sayable.” \u003ci\u003eThinking Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e examines approaches to women’s poetic exploration, ranging from radically open, thoroughly disjunctive writing to feminist experimentation within relatively conventional free verse forms; from texts testing the resources of visual elements and page space to those in which multilingualism or digital technology provide arenas for innovation; from revitalized forms of ekphrasis to fresh approaches to pop culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e        Keller illuminates as well a transitional era in U.S. poetry that presaged current developments that are often seen as combining the poetics of personal lyric and Language writing. \u003ci\u003eThinking Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e challenges reductive notions of such a synthesis as it makes clear that the groundwork for current poetic trends was laid by poets who, in a far more polarized climate, pursued their own, often distinctly feminist, visions of necessary innovation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Iowa Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47018396942576,"sku":"9781587298677","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781587298677_p0.jpg?v=1763807289","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781587298677","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}