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Poetry and Poetics V: Toward a Postmodernist Practice

Session 9 - Sunday 4:30-6:00pm
Henry Hall 102
Presiding Officer: 
Steven Gould Axelrod
Session Chair (if other than PO): 
Bethany Hicok
  1. A. R. Ammons and Capitalism. Melissa Fabros, University of California, Berkeley

    This paper provides a Deleuzean perspective on the interrelations between Ammons’ poetry and American capitalism.

  2. "The Big Lie of the [Im]personal": Jack Spicer's Serial "Correspondences". Colin Dingler, University of California, Berkeley

    Spicer’s serial poems are often read as postmodern experiments that foreground language rather than personal experience. However, After Lorca draws heavily from everyday epistolary correspondence to expose rhetorical modes of self disclosure, without wholly rejecting the poem's capacity to communicate experience.

  3. Shopping at the Hypermarket: Jeff Derksen's Transnational Muscle Cars. Drew McDowell, University of Calgary

    Derksen utilizes “The New Sentence” to parody the experience of moving through the marketplace of signs and commoditized information. His poetry presents personal identity as a critical space for mediating the discourses of capitalism.

Session Type: 
Standing Session
Session Status: 
Closed