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Language Poetry

5 poetas, 1941 –

  1. Lyn Hejinian

    1941 –

    From time immemorial, and everywhere and always, poets of one sort or another are found striving as best they can to comply with the question of poetry as personal narrative. Such a demand has sometimes had shades of realism, or has been associated with precise cultural…

  2. Ron Silliman

    1946 –

    Ron Silliman has had a long career as poet, editor and anthologist. He represents one of the constant features of American writing: the need to initiate and explore new alternatives to the established literary paradigm. His biography as a writer and as a person clearly expresses…

  3. Barrett Watten

    1948 –

    Barrett Watten was asked by Peter Davis to select the "most essential" books to him as a poet. His response clarifies the formal theoretical construct viewed in his thoughtful poetic work. These are the works or categories he found "most formative" for him: Modernists…

  4. Charles Bernstein

    1950 –

    Charles Bernstein has pointed out that his poetry and poetics show a clear "aversion to conformity." Instead he used new forms and approaches with which to agitate and provoke individual action to affect society. This intention can clearly be seen in his primary works like…

  5. Rae Armantrout

    1947 –

    Neither Rae Armantrout’s frequently exposed method of poetry composition (taking pieces and bits from here and there, including random conversations or TV programs), nor her adscription within the Language Poets of the West Coast in the 1970s, let alone the facts of her…