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Book SynopsisPoetry without frontiers, unmoored from expectations, and sometimes even written in imaginary languages; Bruns shows us why, for the sake of all poetry, we should embrace its anarchic, vitalizing ways.
Trade ReviewGerald Bruns's The Material of Poetry provides an incisive account of the philosophical engagements of some of the most formally radical poetry of our time. With edifying cogency, he transforms the ancient war of philosophy on poetry into an aesthetic and ethical alliance on behalf of freedom. In bringing philosophy back to poetry, Bruns finds the truth of things in the verbo-voco-visual plenitude of language.
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Avoiding obfuscating terminology, Bruns makes a compelling case for the proposition that 'anything, under certain conditions, may be made to count as a poem.'
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Delightful . . . Wonderful . . . The Material of Poetry is one of the better books I have read on experimental poetry, one that makes reading the difficult poems of our era seem like vital and liberating work.
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The ways in which Bruns draws attention to . . . areas that so richly deserve deeper ethical and philosophical investigation is interesting and exciting.
