Poetry and Language Writing: Objective and Surreal (LUP - by David Arnold

By David Arnold

Language Poetry, Language Writing, L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E writing—no subject the moniker, the impression of the move and its specific pedigree of theory-conscious poetics, postmodern aesthetics, and non-academic stance can't be denied. during this well timed quantity, David Arnold not just presents a way for coming to phrases with this influential mode of writing and its ongoing trouble of illustration but additionally reassesses the advanced dating among language poetry and surrealism, via dialogue of a few of overdue twentieth-century’s so much cutting edge poets, together with Charles Bernstein, Susan Howe, Michael Palmer, and Barrett Watten.

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The oppositional mode of the improvisations is, not surprisingly, bound up with the circumstances of Williams’s life when he wrote them. Although they are now regarded by some as the most innovative and valuable works of his career – the product of what Fredman (p. 14) has described as ‘a remarkably fruitful decade of experimentation’ – it should be remembered that they were written during a difficult phase. During the late 1910s and early 1920s in particular, Williams struggled to find both outlets for his writing and a literary peer group that would remain consistent in its aims and physically accessible.

If our ‘hero’ stands on the verge of yet another glorious campaign, how come his realizations are determined by the cries of a newborn child and not those from the battlefield? 33 Juxtaposing ‘square’ and ‘expedition’ raises another paradox: war is easier to justify when it takes place ‘out there’, in the colonies, than it is when the disputed territories are the very space which should embody social harmony and national pride. indb 29 11/10/2007 11:35:02 Surrealism: An Excommunicated Vessel? immediately followed by a bizarre recognition scene – bizarre because it seems to take place in the presence of only himself: the man recognizes his friend, but there is no one in the square and he has not received a reply to his ring on the bell.

Just as waking subordinates dreaming, so does hypotaxis overwhelm parataxis; the conjunction of ‘series’ triumphs over the disjunction of ‘transitions’. If recollection is ‘normal memory’, deferred action might be ‘abnormal memory’. In this shift, hypotaxis itself transmutes into the ‘articulation of two moments with a time of delay’. indb 25 11/10/2007 11:35:01 Surrealism: An Excommunicated Vessel? consciousness but reconfigure in their very movement the relationship between past, present and future.

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