Infrathin an experiment in micropoetics / Marjorie Perloff.
| Author/creator | Perloff, Marjorie |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2021. |
| Description | xiii, 253 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction: Toward an Infrathin Reading/Writing Practice -- "A Rose Is a Rose Is a Rrose Sélavy": Stein, Duchamp, and the "Illegible" Portrait -- Eliot's Auditory Imagination: A Rehearsal for Concrete Poetry -- Reading the Verses Backward: The Invention of Pound's Canto Page -- Word Frequencies and Zero Zones: Wallace Stevens's Rock, Susan Howe's Quarry -- "A Wave of Detours": From John Ashbery to Charles Bernstein and Rae Armantrout -- The Trembling of the Veil: Poeticity in Beckett's "Text-Soundings" -- From Beckett to Yeats: The Paragrammatic Potential of "Traditional" Verse. |
| Abstract | "The "infrathin" was Marcel Duchamp's name for the thinnest shade of difference: that between, say, the report of a gunshot and the appearance of the bullet hole on its target, or between two objects in a series made from the same mold. In this book, the esteemed literary critic Marjorie Perloff shows how such differences occur at the level of words and argues that it is this infrathin space, this micropoetics of language, that separates poetry from prose. Perloff treats the relationship between Duchamp and Gertrude Stein; ranges over Concrete, Objectivist, and Black Mountain poetry; and gives stunning readings of poets from Eliot, Yeats, and Pound to Samuel Beckett, John Ashbery, and Rae Armantrout. Poetry, Perloff shows us, exists in the play of the infrathin, and it is the poet's role to create unexpected relationships-verbal, visual, and sonic-from the finest nuances of language"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2021007593 |
| ISBN | 9780226712635 (cloth) |
| ISBN | 9780226798509 (paperback) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |