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  • Chapter 9 - Language Poetry

  • from Part II - American Poetry from 1970 to 2000
  • Andrew Epstein, Florida State University
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Introduction to American Poetry since 1945
    Published online:
    01 December 2022
    Print publication:
    15 December 2022, pp 145-159

  • Summary

    This chapter introduces the controversial movement known as Language poetry, one of the most significant, influential avant-garde poetry movement of the later twentieth century. It traces Language poetry’s origins and examines its theoretical, aesthetic, and political commitments. The chapter explores the fierce debates surrounding Language poetry’s rise and its institutionalization and canonization, and its outsized influence. It discusses some of the major features of Language poetics, including its radical experimentation with form and its postmodernist attitudes about the nature of language and the self. The chapter looks closely at work by a number of leading practitioners of Language poetry, including Charles Bernstein, Ron Silliman, Lyn Hejinian, Rae Armantrout, and Susan Howe.

  • Chapter 50 - American Poetry at the End of the Millennium

  • from Part IV - Beyond Modernism: American Poetry, 1950–2000
  • Edited by Alfred Bendixen, Princeton University, New Jersey, Stephen Burt, Harvard University, Massachusetts
  • Book:
    The Cambridge History of American Poetry
    Published online:
    05 December 2014
    Print publication:
    27 October 2014, pp 1144-1166

  • Summary

    This chapter focuses on the work of two apparently quite different American poets, namely Thylias Moss and Charles Bernstein, in order to consider how poets responded to, resisted, and participated in exchanges about the significance of style as those assumptions unfolded and changed between 1980 and 1990. Moss's early poems are at least as clearly in conversation with Richard Wilbur's or Wallace Stevens's lyricism and with social realities, settings in which white sheets would call to mind the violent history of lynchings, not angels, as with Language poetry. The chapter suggests that the apparently opposed poetry camps of the 1980s reveal in effect a continuing late Romantic understanding of poetry's purpose, namely that, however the self and the world are defined, poetry expands or recasts the borders between self and world, a process seen to require accuracy of seeing and feeling.