A Social Biography of Contemporary Innovative Poetry Communities

The Gift, the Wager, and Poethics

By:

Elizabeth-Jane Burnett

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Hardback

Series:

Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics

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This book offers a new reading of Marcell Mauss’ and Lewis Hyde’s theories of poetry as gift, exploring poetry exchanges within 20th and 21st century communities of poets, publishers, audiences and readers operating along a gift economy. The text considers trans-Atlantic case studies across fields of performance and ecopoetics, small press publishing and poetry institutions, with focus on Joan Retallack, Bob Holman, Anne Waldman, Bob Cobbing, and feminist performance. Elizabeth-Jane Burnett focuses on innovative poetry that resists commodification, drawing on ethnography to show parallels with gift giving tribal societies; she also considers the ethical, philosophical and psychological motivations for such exchanges with particular reference to poethics. This book will appeal to researchers in modern poetry, poetry teachers, advanced students of modern literature, and those with an interest in poetry.

Author Biography:

Dr. Elizabeth-Jane Burnett is Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Newman University, Birmingham. She studied English at Oxford and Royal Holloway, University of London. Her poetry includes Rivering (2017) and Swims (2014). She is currently writing a book titled A Dictionary of the Soil.

Release date Australia

October 2nd, 2017

Author

Elizabeth-Jane Burnett

Series

Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics

Pages

217

Edition

1st ed. 2017

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

3 Illustrations, black and white; IX, 217 p. 3 illus.

ISBN-13

9783319622941

Product ID

26841024

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