Abigail Lang

Modernist Legacies: Trends and Faultlines in British Poetry Today - Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics Abigail Lang 1st ed. 2015 edition

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Biographical Note: Abigail Lang is Associate Professor at Universite Paris-Diderot, France. David Nowell Smith is Lecturer in Literature at the University of East Anglia, UK. "Table of Contents: Introduction; David Nowell Smith and Abigail LangPART I: HISTORIES SINCE MODERNISM1. Warring Clans, Podsolized Ground: Language in Contemporary UK Poetry; Peter Middleton2. Skipping Across the Pond: Interaction between American and British Poetries, 1964-1970; Allen Fisher and Robert Hampson3. New British Schools; Romana Huk PART II: THE MODERNIST LEGACY4. "Who am I to say? How little": Anthony Barnett's Citations Followed On; Xavier Kalck5. "Kinked up like it wants to bark": Contemporary British Poetry at the Tomb of the Poete Maudit; Simon Perril6. The Atypicality of Jeff Hilson: Metrical Language and Modernist Pleasure; Lacy Rumsey7. Balsam Flex: Cassette Culture and Poetry; Will Montgomery8. Caroline Bergvall's Poetics of the Infrathin; Vincent BroquaPART III: POETICAL AND POLITICAL COMMITMENTS9. Transcultural Hybridity and Modernist Legacies: Observations on Late Twentieth and Early Twenty First Century British Poetry; Sara Greaves10. Langwij a thi guhtr; David Nowell Smith11. Strikers with Poems; Luke Roberts 12. Forms of Reproduction in Wendy Mulford's Early Work; Samuel Solomon13. "Ill read ill said": Faultlines in Contemporary Poetics as Ideology; Drew MilneFurther Reading: 99 poets"

Contributor Bio:  Lang, Abigail Abigail Lang is the author of Le monde compte rendu, Lectures de Louis Zukofsky (ENS editions, forthcoming) and the co-editor of Double Change, A Film Archive of Poetry, 1 and 2 (Motion Method Memory / Presses du r el, 2009). A translator of American poetry into French, she teaches at the University Paris-Diderot.