Material Poetics in Hemispheric America: Words and Objects 1950-2010

This book examines poets and artists in the Americas during the late twentieth and early twenty—first centuries to show how they worked to make language into material objects and material objects into language. It builds a theory of 'material poetics' that provides an alternative account of poetry in hemispheric America. Rebecca Kosick argues that by reframing American poetry to prominently include object—oriented practices within and beyond the United States, material poetry can be seen as...