Poetry after Language -- ACLA seminar 2015

[Marijeta Bozovic]

Dear colleagues,

Please consider submitting a proposal for our seminar, "Poetry after
Language," at the ACLA this year:
http://www.acla.org/poetry-after-language-0


Poetry after Language

Marijeta Bozovic (Yale University)
Walt Hunter (Clemson University)
Kevin Platt (University of Pennsylvania)


The L-A-N-G-U-A-G-E school of poetry marked a shift—or a return to
avant-garde practice—in American poetry in the 1970s. This seminar examines
the continuing international significance of the L-A-N-G-U-A-G-E school of
poetry in the wake of renewed politically engaged practices after the
international years of protest (and protest culture) of 2011-2013.

At a moment when artistic movements across the world are taking up
avant-garde and modernist strategies, stances and practices, what is the
legacy of that earlier recovery of the avant-garde? Diverse poetic
practices associated with the loosely defined movement edged toward the
position, in Lyn Hejinian’s words, that: “Language is nothing but meanings,
and meanings are nothing but a flow of contexts. Such contexts rarely
coalesce into images, rarely come to terms. They are transitions,
transmutations, the endless radiating of denotation into relation.”
Hejinian’s exchanges and mutual inspiration with Arkady Dragomoshchenko and
the poets of the Leningrad underground have been documented and studied—but
what are the other channels, networks, and systems by which L-A-N-G-U-A-G-E
poetry has gained a global reach? How has contemporary avant-garde poetic
practice incorporated, extended, or critiqued the relation between poetic
language and political formation? We return to the “language of inquiry” in
Anglophone, Russophone, South American, Francophone, and diverse global
poetries—to raise questions of transcultural, translingual, and transmedia
poetic movements. Possible topics include: vernacular poetries and the
avant-garde; poetry and translation; the place of poetry in a literary
world-system; the international flourishing of hybrid forms of poetry,
including lyric essays and disruptive performances; political readings of
poetic meter and trope; international poetry journals and publishing;
institutions of contemporary global poetry.


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Marijeta Bozovic
Assistant Professor
Slavic Languages and Literatures
Yale University
marijeta.bozovic at yale.edu <mbozovic at coglate.edu>
m. 917-887-5197
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