The Meaning of Form in Contemporary Innovative Poetry

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The Meaning of Form in Contemporary Innovative Poetry is written by Robert Sheppard and published by Springer. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 331934045X (ISBN 10) and 9783319340456 (ISBN 13).

This study engages the life of form in contemporary innovative poetries through both an introduction to the latest theories and close readings of leading North American and British innovative poets. The critical approach derives from Robert Sheppard’s axiomatic contention that poetry is the investigation of complex contemporary realities through the means (meanings) of form. Analyzing the poetry of Rosmarie Waldrop, Caroline Bergval, Sean Bonney, Barry MacSweeney, Veronica Forrest-Thomson, Kenneth Goldsmith, Allen Fisher, and Geraldine Monk, Sheppard argues that their forms are a matter of authorial design and readerly engagement.