American Poetry as Transactional Art
American Poetry as Transactional Art Explores the ways American poetry engages with visual art, music, fiction, spirituality, and performance artMany people think of poetry as a hermetic art, as…
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American Poetry as Transactional Art
Explores the ways American poetry engages with visual art, music, fiction, spirituality, and performance artMany people think of poetry as a hermetic art, as though poets wrote only about themselves or as if the subject of poetry were finally only poetry--its forms and traditions. Stephen Fredman's study proposes a different perspective.American Poetry as Transactional Art explores a salient quality of much avant-garde American poetry that has so far lacked sustained treatment: namely, its role as a transactional art. Indeed much of what constitutes poetry in the lyric tradition depends on a stringently controlled point of view and aims for a timeless, intransitive utterance.
Specifically Fredman describes this role as the ways it consistently engages in conversation, talk, correspondence, going beyond the scope of its own subjects and forms--its