The Poetics of Agency by Tymek Woodham - 9781350417229

The Poetics of AgencyAction and Form in Post-War US Poetry\nAuthor(s): Tymek Woodham\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: Bloomsbury Academic\nISBN-13: 9781350417229, 978-1350417229\nSynopsis\nFocusing on the poetry and poetics of four pivotal authors, this book examines how experimental approaches to poetic form in the post-war United States rejected the model of the indivisible subject as the principal locus of artistic creation, and in so doing reframed period-defining questions surrounding the limits and possibilities of human agency.\n\n In the decades following the Second World War, poetry in the [url] was marked by a resurgence of manifesto culture, where practitioners and scholars from a range of political persuasions debated fiercely the common presumptions underpinning the practice and interpretation of poetry. These debates were all primarily concerned with the agency of poetic writing and performance, including what cognitive o.