The Force of What’s Possible: Writers on Accessibility & the Avant-Garde

by Lily Hoang

Is there any avant-garde? What’s at stake when 100 writers think through issues of accessibility and audience? This is a book comprised of answers―to these questions and their offspring―as various and contradictory as its contributors, ranging from Eileen Myles, Lyn Hejinian, and Joyelle McSweeney to Blake Butler, Jenny Boully, and Rikki Ducornet, among dozens of others. The results here provide discrepant engagements on the most pressing questions of the literary, the political, and the force of what's possible for writers in the 21st Century.

400 pages, Paperback

First published October 6, 2014

About the author

Lily Hoang's first book, PARABOLA, won the Chiasmus Press Un-Doing the Novel Contest. She is also the author of the forthcoming novels CHANGING (Fairy Tale Review Press, Dec. 2008) and THE EVOLUTIONARY REVOLUTION (Les Figues Press, 2009-10). She is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of English & Women's Studies at Saint Mary's College in Indiana."

Reviews

[Simone · Rating 4 out of 5]

a wonderful (albeit dated) collection of essays on what constitutes a poetic avant-garde and what it means to be ‘accessible’.