TY - BOOK AU - Kosick,Rebecca TI - Material poetics in hemispheric America: words and objects 1950-2010 SN - 1474474624 AV - PS325 .K67 2020 U1 - 811/.5409 23 PY - 2020///] CY - Edinburgh PB - Edinburgh University Press KW - Materialism in literature KW - American poetry KW - 20th century KW - History and criticism KW - 21st century KW - American literature KW - Theory, etc KW - Latin American poetry KW - Latin American literature KW - Matérialisme dans la littérature KW - Poésie américaine KW - 20e siècle KW - Histoire et critique KW - Littérature américaine KW - Théorie, etc KW - Poésie latino-américaine KW - 21e siècle KW - Littérature latino-américaine KW - ART KW - Art & Politics KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Electronic books KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 N2 - 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 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2653498 ER -