Various (Watten, Barrett (Editor); Hejinian, Lyn et al.)

A Guide to Poetics Journal: Writing in the Expanded Field 1982-1998

ISBN: 9780819571212
Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2013. First Trade Softcover Edition. Softcover. Signed by co-editor & contributor Barrett Watten. “Lyn Hejinian [1941-2024] and Barrett Watten [b. 1948] are internationally recognized poet/critics. Together they edited the highly influential Poetics Journal, whose ten issues, published between 1982 and 1998, contributed to the surge of interest in the practice of poetics. A Guide to Poetics Journal presents the major conversations and debates from the journal, and invites readers to expand on the critical and creative engagements they represent. In making their selections for the guide, the editors have sought to showcase a range of innovative poetics and to indicate the diversity of fields and activities with which they might be engaged. The introduction and headnotes by the editors provide historical and thematic context for the articles. The Guide is intended to be of sustained creative and classroom use” (Wesleyan University Press, https://tinyurl.com/6annzvxd). A collection of high-caliber contributions to Barrett Watten & Lyn Hejinian’s Poetics Journal detailing the direction of poetics from the end of the Second San Francisco Renaissance, onward. Both Watten and Hejinian were active in the Bay Area beginning at the time of the SSFR, but championed a very different type of poetics that bore greater relation to the experiments of authors like Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) and other Modernist precursors than the Beat Tradition as typically considered. An essential volume for anyone desirous of understanding the direction of 20th century poetics, today. Note: for a full list of contributors and contents, consult the photos attached to this listing. From the collection of Barrett Watten, the acclaimed American poet, editor & academician (here in Michigan at Wayne State University) who is a founding member of the Language (or L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E) school of poetry. First Trade Softcover Edition: First Printing, with no reference to other printings, thereon. This copy is additionally signed by the poet (and here, co-editor) on the work’s title page. Watten’s signature, in thin, blue pen ink, reads: “Barrett Watten” [underlined].” In strong Fine condition with only minute shelf-wear & some light bumping to fine-edges & corners of front, back covers & spine-edge at select locales; otherwise, generally clean with interior unmarked. Fine. [Item #9185]

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