1st Edition

From Experimental Poetics to Creative Legacies Language Poetry and its American Avant-Garde Aesthetics

By Amrita Sharma Copyright 2026
190 Pages
by Routledge

190 Pages
by Routledge

From Experimental Poetics to Creative Legacies: Language Poetry and its American Avant-Garde Aesthetics offers a comprehensive account of Language Poetry, tracing its origins, evolution, and enduring influence. It demonstrates how a movement that emerged from American experimental writing in the 1970s has become a creative legacy with lasting relevance for twenty-first-century poetics.... Read more

Preface  1. Introduction: The Modern Age and the Rise of the Avant-garde Poetics  2. Tracing the Language Canon: Editorial Projects, Poetic Figures, and the Formation of a Community  3. Interpreting Language Poetry: Compositional Poetics, Ideological Grounds, and Practices of Reading  4. The Continuities of Language Poetics: Material Innovations, Digital Technologies and Extensions of the Experiment  5. The Experimental Arc: Language Poetry, Creative Legacies, and the Global Discourse Appendix. Poet Interviews

                

Biography

Amrita Sharma is Assistant Professor of English at Sri Venkateswara College, University of Delhi, India. She holds a Ph.D. in English from the Department of English and Modern European Languages, University of Lucknow. During 2021–2022, she served as a Fulbright Fellow at the Center for the Study of Languages and Cultures, University of Notre Dame, USA. Her research focuses on American avant-garde literature and experimental poetics, with particular interest in how aesthetic, theoretical, and material conditions shape innovative writing practices. She is also the author of the poetry collection titled The Skies published in 2022.