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Experimental poetry


  • Poems that emphasize innovative or unconventional technique.

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    • Experimental poetry

  • Variants

    • Avant-garde poetry

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    • Poetry

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  • Sources

    • found: Encyclopedia of American poetry, 2001(Experimental poetry/The avant-garde: Experimental poetry attempts to reveal order within the writer's working materials, allowing language to reveal its own meanings and patterns rather than imposing the writer's meaning onto the words)
    • found: New Princeton encyclopedia of poetry and poetics, 2012(sound poetry: the practice of sound poetry has fairly distinct origins in an extensive, international network of avant-garde poets from the late 19th c. into the 1930s, and it has been extended and theorized by neo-avant-garde poets from the 1940s to the present. In Europe, nearly all the historical avant-garde movements practiced a version of sound poetry)
    • found: Cambridge guide to literature in English, 2000(concrete poetry: An experimental form of poetry, flourishing in the 1960s, which concentrated on isolated and particular aspects of visual, phonetic or kinetic structure, abandoning normal forms of meaning for those disclosed at or below the level of the single word)
    • found: Wikipedia, Jan. 14, 2013(Experimental literature refers to written work--usually fiction or poetry--that emphasizes innovation, most especially in technique.)
    • found: Primer of experimental poetry, 1971-
    • found: LCSH, Oct. 21, 2014(Experimental poetry. UF Avant-garde poetry)

  • General Notes

    • Poems that emphasize innovative or unconventional technique.

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    • 2014-12-01: new
    • 2015-12-14: revised

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