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504 a| Includes bibliographical references and index.;

505 0 a| Assimilating the arts : poetry and difference in Yoko Ono's Instructions -- Fluxus scores and the bureaucratization of everyday life -- "I do this, I do that" : Cold War spatial poetics and the New York School poets -- Feminist procedure and durational constraint : reproduction, welfare, and "losing myself" -- Documental poetry and the privatization of interpretation.;

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Poetry in general how a literary form became public / Keegan Cook Finberg.

Author/creator	Finberg, Keegan Cook author.
Format	Book
Publication	New York : Columbia University Press, [2025]
Description	251 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm.
Subjects	Political poetry, American--History and criticism. American poetry--20th century. --History and criticism. American poetry--21st century. --History and criticism. Poetry--Social aspects. --United States.

Series	Literature now Literature now.
Contents	Assimilating the arts : poetry and difference in Yoko Ono's Instructions -- Fluxus scores and the bureaucratization of everyday life -- "I do this, I do that" : Cold War spatial poetics and the New York School poets -- Feminist procedure and durational constraint : reproduction, welfare, and "losing myself" -- Documental poetry and the privatization of interpretation.
Abstract	"In the second half of the twentieth century, poetry, broadly understood, leapt out of books and became an interdisciplinary public form. Poets drew on the world around them to engage with the arenas of work and politics in responding to the degradation of the social democratic notion of the public in the United States. During this period of privatization and public austerity, poetry strove to become a capacious force in the arts. However, recognizing a changing sense of agency in the restricted public sphere, the poets and works discussed in Poetry in General examine whether poetry can really do anything in a social or political sense. Beginning with the early 60s work of Fluxus artist, Yoko Ono, and New York School Poet, Frank O'Hara, Keegan Cook Finberg examines how these poets/artists drew upon and disrupted conventional ideas about work and the public sphere. Putting together techniques of both abstraction and confession, this expanded category of poetry made space for exchange and coalition-building within poetic production. 60s' optimism was soon replaced by fears of privatization that affected women in particular, and poets such as Adrian Piper and Bernadette Mayer drew on constraint-based forms to protest restricted abortion access and the stigmatization of welfare services. In the last part of the book, Finberg considers the response to the solidification of neoliberalism by examining poetry that interprets moments of atrocity and excess. Techniques of conceptual poetry and documentary poetics transformed official documents to critically examine contemporary politics. Examples include creative reworkings of an important legal case for abolition retold (NourbeSe Philip), the dialogue of an 11-hour filibuster to thwart anti-choice legislation (Wendy Davis), and credit documents from the 2008 recession (Mathew Timmons), which reveal public ways to read and interpret racial capitalism, anti-abortion legislation, and mass debt."-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other form	ebook version : 9780231562584
LCCN	2025013076
ISBN	9780231219228
ISBN	9780231219211 (hardback)
ISBN	0231219210
ISBN	0231219229
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