Aesthetics, Race, and the Renewal of Innovative Poetics
by
Joel Bettridge
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Avant-Garde Pieties tells a new story about innovative poetry; it argues that the avant-garde-now more than a century old-persists in its ability to nurture interesting, provocative, meaningful, and moving poems, despite its profound cultural failings and its self-devouring theoretical compulsions....