Material poetics in hemispheric America : words and objects 1950-2010 / Rebecca Kosick.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This book examines poets and artists in the Americas during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries to show how they worked to make language into material objects and material objects into language. It builds a theory of?material poetics? that provides an alternative account of poetry in hemispheric America. Rebecca Kosick argues that by reframing American poetry to prominently include object-oriented practices within and beyond the United States, material poetry can be seen as representing a significant branch of the American poetic tradition.

Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 22, 2020).

Intro -- List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: How Poetry Matters -- 1. The Autonomous Object of Concrete Poetry -- 2. Sensation, Relation and Neoconcrete Poetics -- 3. Assembling La nueva novela: Juan Luis Martínez and a Material Poetics of Relation -- 4. Concrete USA: Building Ronald Johnson's ARK -- 5. Lyrical Matters and Posthuman Poetics in Anne Carson's Nox -- Coda: The Subject of the Material Poem -- Bibliography -- Index

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