Opposing Poetries: Volume One—Issues and Institutions

Opposing Poetries presents a selection of Hank Lazer’s writing on a range of issues in contemporary American poetry. Through a series of recurring cultural, material, and institutional perspectives, Lazer investigates the assumptions and habits that govern conflicting conceptions of contemporary American poetry, while refining, reconsidering, and questioning his own and modern theorists’ assertions and claims relating to experimental poetry.

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Opposing Poetries: Volume One—Issues and Institutions

(Northwestern University Press, 1996)

 

Opposing Poetries presents a selection of Hank Lazer’s writing on a range of issues in contemporary American poetry. Through a series of recurring cultural, material, and institutional perspectives, Lazer investigates the assumptions and habits that govern conflicting conceptions of contemporary American poetry, while refining, reconsidering, and questioning his own and modern theorists’ assertions and claims relating to experimental poetry.