Material Poetics in Hemispheric America

Rebecca Kosick is Lecturer in Translation in the Department of Hispanic, Portuguese, and Latin American Studies at the University of Bristol, where she also co-directs the Bristol Poetry Institute. She is the author of a poetry collection entitled Labor Day (Golias Books) as well as numerous articles addressing Hemispheric American poetry and art in the twentieth century and contemporary periods.

• List of illustrationsAcknowledgements Introduction How Poetry Matters1. The Autonomous Object of Concrete Poetry2. Sensation, Relation, and Neoconcrete Poetics3. Assembling La Nueva Novela: Juan Luis Martínez and a Material Poetics of Relation　4. Concrete USA: Building Ronald Johnson’s Ark5. Lyrical Matters and Posthuman Poetics in Anne Carson’s NoxCoda: The Subject of the Material PoemBibliographyIndex

This is an excellent and well-timed book on an important sub-tradition within hemispheric American poetries, which breaks new ground in the study of concrete and material poetries with clarity, confidence and a great deal of critical flair.