Transformative Repetition in Experimental and Post-Digital Poetics
Edited by Bruno Ministro
- Explores the various ways in which poets engage with repetition with examples ranging from concrete poetry of the 1950s to the post-digital poetics of the present day
- Reexamines the notion of repetition in ways that open new avenues for rethinking its role in the history of avant-garde poetry of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries
- Demonstrates how experimental poetry and artistic research are themselves practices of knowledge production that offer a thought-provoking approach for reinterpreting creative repetition in a time of statistically patterned AI text production
- Contributes to shed new light on literary works defined by radical appropriation, remix, and other iterative writing practices based on transformative repetition
- Brings together internationally renowned scholars as well as emerging researchers whose work is pushing the boundaries of a variety of disciplines – including literary studies, media studies, research-creation and digital humanities
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Repetitive Thoughts, Global Avant-Gardes
Bruno Ministro
Part I Repetition and Experimental Poetry (From the Past)
1. Deep Reading Minimal Texts: Prayers and Elegies in Off-Off Artefacts
Rui Torres
2. Broken Repetition: Difference and Its Iteration in Hansjörg Mayer’s Early Titles
Bronaċ Ferran
3. 'You Also Means Me'. Repetition as Creation and Deconstruction of the Self: The Case of Ketty La Rocca
Marzia D’Amico
4. The Zukofskys’ Catullus as Phenomenal Repetition
Rebecca Kosick
Part II Repetition and Contemporary Poetry (Of the Present)
5. Structures in Movement: Repeating Ulises Carrión in the Twenty-First Century
Olivia Lott
6. Repetition in African American Poetry: From the Spirituals to Douglas Kearney
Lauri Scheyer
7. 'Bound by the Contrary of Ceaseless Repetition': Form and the Hold of Perseveration in Maria Cyranowicz’s deepression Archive
Małgorzata Myk
8. Expanded Elegy in Victoria Chang’s Obit
Julie Phillips Brown
Part III Repetition and Post-Digital Artistic Research (For the Future)
9. The Equilexical Sonnet: Insights from Study and Poetic Practice
Nick Montfort
10. Serial Writing
Felipe Cussen
11. It’s Fine: An Ecopoetics of Exhaustion in Weather Writing
J. R. Carpenter
Contributors
Index
Repetition is intrinsic to poetry from its origins into the present, but as this remarkable anthology demonstrates, repetition is always – paradoxically – variation. The authors address changed technical and conceptual conditions for poetic production in a wide range of historical and contemporary works that use repetition as a springboard for imagination.
