{"product_id":"the-material-of-poetry-sketches-for-a-philosophical-poetics-paperback","title":"The Material of Poetry: Sketches for a Philosophical Poetics - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGerald L. Bruns\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePoetry is philosophically interesting, writes Gerald L. Bruns, \"when it is innovative not just in its practices, but, before everything else, in its poetics (that is, in its concepts or theories of itself).\" In \u003ci\u003eThe Material of Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e, Bruns considers the possibility that anything, under certain conditions, may be made to count as a poem. By spelling out such enabling conditions he gives us an engaging overview of some of the kinds of contemporary poetry that challenge our notions of what language is: sound poetry, visual or concrete poetry, and \"found\" poetry. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePoetry's sense and meaning can hide in the spaces in which it is written and read, says Bruns, and so he urges us to become anthropologists, to go afield in poetry's social, historical, and cultural settings. From that perspective, Bruns draws on works by such varied poets as Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, Steve McCaffery, and Francis Ponge to argue for three seemingly competing points. First, poetry is made of language but is not a use of it. That is, poetry is made of words but not of what we use words to produce: concepts, narratives, expressions of feeling, and so on. Second, as the nine sound poems on the online audio recordings included with the book demonstrate, poetry is not necessarily made of words but is rooted in, and in fact already fully formed by, sounds the human body can produce. Finally, poetry belongs to the world alongside ordinary things; it cannot be confined to some aesthetic, neutral, or disengaged dimension of human culture. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePoetry without frontiers, unmoored from expectations, and sometimes even written in imaginary languages: Bruns shows us why, for the sake of all poetry, we should embrace its anarchic, vitalizing ways.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eGERALD L. BRUNS is the William P. and Hazel B. White Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame. His books include \u003ci\u003eTragic Thoughts at the End of Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eModern Poetry and the Idea of Language\u003c\/i\u003e. He has won NEH and Guggenheim fellowships, and has been a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study at Hebrew University in Jerusalem and at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 168\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.42 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 01, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47450156400818,"sku":"9780820344171","price":42.05,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/e43ef2a93bab7aab9cb21e4edc8e4666.webp?v=1778781847","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/the-material-of-poetry-sketches-for-a-philosophical-poetics-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}