{"product_id":"rethinking-the-north-american-long-poem-form-matter-experiment-9780826367105","title":"Rethinking the North American Long Poem: Form, Matter, Experiment","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor centuries, critics, poets, poet-scholars, and philosophers have either openly proclaimed or tacitly assumed the long poem as the highest expression of literary ambition and excellence. \u003cem\u003eRethinking the North American Long Poem\u003c\/em\u003e focuses on the North American variant of this notorious form--notorious because of its often forbidding and difficult character, particularly with respect to the dialectics of content and form, aesthetics and politics, matter and genre. In nine essays and a contextual introduction, the editors and contributors scrutinize seminal long poems by North American writers, including Walt Whitman's \"Song of Myself,\" Ezra Pound's \u003cem\u003eThe Cantos\u003c\/em\u003e, Muriel Rukeyser's \u003cem\u003eThe Book of the Dead\u003c\/em\u003e, and Charles Olson's \u003cem\u003eThe Maximus Poems\u003c\/em\u003e. They also explore recent efforts that have redefined or reopened the case of the long poem, including Rachel Blau DuPlessis's \u003cem\u003eDrafts\u003c\/em\u003e, M. NourbeSe Philip's \u003cem\u003eZong!\u003c\/em\u003e, and Claudia Rankine's \u003cem\u003eCitizen\u003c\/em\u003e. Taking the categories of form, matter, and experiment as frames of conceptual reference, the book examines the ways in which material and immaterial aspects of literary practice and the philosophically and politically inscribed duality of experience and experiment are negotiated in and by North American long poems from the nineteenth century to the present.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ridvan Askin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Unm Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/15\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries:\u003c\/b\u003e Recencies Series: Research and Recovery in Twentieth-Century\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.98lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780826367105","brand":"Unm Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44453114806409,"sku":"9780826367105","price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_28fc526e-7c61-489a-83a9-b3c67babbb62.jpg?v=1753819776","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/rethinking-the-north-american-long-poem-form-matter-experiment-9780826367105","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}