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Questions of poetics : language writing and consequences

di Barrett Watten

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Questions of Poetics is Barrett Watten's major reassessment of the political history, social formation, and literary genealogy of Language writing. A key participant in the emergent bicoastal poetic avant-garde as poet, editor, and publisher, Watten has developed, over three decades of writing in poetics, a sustained account of its theory and practice. The present volume represents the core of Watten's critical writing and public lecturing since the millennium, taking up the historical origins and continuity of Language writing, from its beginnings to the present. Each chapter is a theoretical inquiry into an aspect of poetics in an expanded sense--from the relation of experimental poetry to cultural logics of liberation and political economy, to questions of community and the politics of the avant-garde, to the cultural contexts where it is produced and intervenes. Each serves as a kind of thought experiment that theorizes and assesses the consequences of Language writing in expanded fields of meaning that include history, political theory, art history, and narrative theory. While all are grounded in a series of baseline questions of poetics, they also polemically address the currently turbulent debates on the politics of the avant-garde, especially Language writing, among emerging communities of poets. In manifold ways, Watten masterfully demonstrates the aesthetic and political aims of Language writing, its influence on emerging literary schools, and its present aesthetic, critical, and political horizons. Questions of Poetics will be a major point of reference in continuing debates on poetry and literary history, a critical reexamination for already familiar readers and a clearly presented introduction for new ones. … (altro)

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Questions of Poetics by Barrett Watten is an excellent look at Language writing both historically and theoretically. The presentation is both microscopic (specific incidents) and macroscopic (movements both past and future) in nature which should allow anyone with an interest in poetics an avenue into his argument.

For me, the immediate takeaway on first reading is the situating of the origins of Language writing and its development. This is also the aspect of Watten's poetics that led to the "debate" with Amiri Baraka in 2000. Perhaps an important point to always remember when assessing a broad theoretical concept derived largely from a person's own experiences is that it will be based on that particular perception of events, and thus a specific type of response. It certainly does not invalidate the ideas but rather cues the reader to seek other ideas that might have been formed from a different response to the same events.

If you're familiar with Watten you will already be familiar with many of his ideas on particularity, negativity and formal agency. I found of great interest the use of these ideas, which he has previously used in elaborating on Language writing, applied to the idea of various avant-garde movements (I think I prefer, in this context, to use avant-garde moments). I make no claims of fully grasping all of the details or nuances and look forward to re-visiting this book many times.

This will certainly be of interest to scholars and academics interested in poetics, avant-garde and Language writing. I think this will also find favorable reception among those who enjoy the historical and theoretical aspects of the literature they might read largely for enjoyment. This might be a bit detailed for a casual reader of literary theory but is written clearly and if one wanted to learn these ideas this would be a wonderful book for study.

Reviewed from an ARC made available by the publisher via NetGalley. (

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Questions of Poetics is Barrett Watten's major reassessment of the political history, social formation, and literary genealogy of Language writing. A key participant in the emergent bicoastal poetic avant-garde as poet, editor, and publisher, Watten has developed, over three decades of writing in poetics, a sustained account of its theory and practice. The present volume represents the core of Watten's critical writing and public lecturing since the millennium, taking up the historical origins and continuity of Language writing, from its beginnings to the present. Each chapter is a theoretical inquiry into an aspect of poetics in an expanded sense--from the relation of experimental poetry to cultural logics of liberation and political economy, to questions of community and the politics of the avant-garde, to the cultural contexts where it is produced and intervenes. Each serves as a kind of thought experiment that theorizes and assesses the consequences of Language writing in expanded fields of meaning that include history, political theory, art history, and narrative theory. While all are grounded in a series of baseline questions of poetics, they also polemically address the currently turbulent debates on the politics of the avant-garde, especially Language writing, among emerging communities of poets. In manifold ways, Watten masterfully demonstrates the aesthetic and political aims of Language writing, its influence on emerging literary schools, and its present aesthetic, critical, and political horizons. Questions of Poetics will be a major point of reference in continuing debates on poetry and literary history, a critical reexamination for already familiar readers and a clearly presented introduction for new ones.

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