Terrain: Essays on the New Poetics

by David Vichnar (Editor), Olga Pek (Editor), Guillermo Suárez Ara (Contributor)

Within our global-local environment there reverberates a polyphony of realities that are inter-actual, intersecting, constantly contested, and always in the process of assuming new forms, forming new hybrids, taking new plunges in transversal directions. The essays collected in the present volume have been written in and between London, Paris, Berlin and Prague and first appeared in the arts and poetics magazine VLAK. As such, the essays position themselves "in between"--internationally, in-terculturally, and intertextually--in order to present the first tentative mapping of the new poetics terrains. Contributors include: Guillermo Suarez Ara, Matthew Hall, Louis Armand, Jeroen Nieuwland, David Vichnar & Olga Pek.

Genres: Poetry

208 pages, Paperback

First published December 10, 2014

Reviews

[Andrew · Rating 2 out of 5]

Some essays are very interesting; some are not. (To be fair, I hadn't read all of the pieces being analyzed/critiqued, however.) All are well written. I was hoping for a stronger theme or commonality tying all the essays together. It is present for some but not others.

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