Innovative Poetries – Innovations in Poetry (University of Łódź)
University of Łódź Rogowska 26 Street, 91-529 ŁódźInnovative Poetries - Department of American Literature, University of Łódź, September 29-30 2016 Beginning with the modernist aesthetic revolution, poetry has continuously shown a stubborn resolve to respond to social, political and cultural shifts and crises with technical innovation. Such innovativeness speaks of the resilience of poetry, as genre, as it refuses to succumb to various announcements of its death or cultural irrelevance. The historical lineage of these responses is an impressive inventory of technical innovation in itself. While the New York School poets reacted to the monumental edifices of their modernist predecessors, their own performative-surrealist modes or varieties of "personism" were later replaced by the Language poets' insistence on the dissolution of personal expressivity, while both the Language and New York School poets have been seen as responding to the technically moderate "scenic mode" of the 1970's. But these innovations have already had their continuations and further reverberations. As various […]