{"title":"Books by Marjorie Perloff","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9780226660608","title":"Wittgenstein`s Ladder – Poetic Language and the Strangeness of the Ordinary","description":"Marjorie Perloff, among our foremost critics of twentieth-century poetry, argues that Ludwig Wittgenstein provided writers with a radical new aesthetic, a key to recognizing the inescapable strangeness of ordinary language. Taking seriously Wittgenstein's remark that \"philosophy ought really to be written only as a form of poetry,\" Perloff begins by discussing Wittgenstein the \"poet.\" What we learn is that the poetics of everyday life is anything but banal.   \"This book has the lucidity and the intelligence we have come to expect from Marjorie Perloff.—Linda Munk, American Literature\"[Perloff] has brilliantly adapted Wittgenstein's conception of meaning and use to an analysis of contemporary language poetry.\"—Linda Voris, Boston Review\"Wittgenstein's Ladder offers significant insights into the current state of poetry, literature, and literary study. Perloff emphasizes the vitality of reading and thinking about poetry, and the absolute necessity of pushing against the boundaries that define and limit our worlds.\"—David Clippinger, Chicago Review\"Majorie Perloff has done more to illuminate our understanding of twentieth century poetic language than perhaps any other critic. . . . Entertaining, witty, and above all highly original.\"—Willard Bohn, Sub-Stance","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56227383607669,"sku":"9780226660608","price":30.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780226660608_4923e643-84d5-4d23-a6fc-11d162054412.jpg?v=1786012634"},{"product_id":"9780226798509","title":"Infrathin – An Experiment in Micropoetics","description":"The “infrathin” was Marcel Duchamp’s playful name for the most minute shade of difference: that between the report of a gunshot and the appearance of the bullet hole, or between two objects in a series made from the same mold. “Eat” is not the same thing as “ate.” The poetic, Marjorie Perloff suggests, can best be understood as the language of infrathin. For in poetry, whether in verse or prose, words and phrases that are seemingly unrelated in ordinary discourse are realigned by means of sound, visual layout, etymology, grammar, and construction so as to “make it new.” In her revisionist “micropoetics,” Perloff draws primarily on major modernist poets from Stein and Yeats to Beckett, suggesting that the usual emphasis on what this or that poem is “about,” does not do justice to its infrathin possibilities. From Goethe’s eight-line “Wanderer’s Night Song” to Eliot’s Four Quartets, to the minimalist lyric of Rae Armantrout, Infrathin is designed to challenge our current habits of reading and to answer the central question: what is it that makes poetry poetry?","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56227693101429,"sku":"9780226798509","price":27.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780226798509_7b001b0d-2c19-4e31-b97a-ca8992a83ac6.jpg?v=1786012808"},{"product_id":"radical-artifice-writing-poetry-in-the-age-of-media","title":"Radical Artifice – Writing Poetry in the Age of Media","description":"How the negotiation between poetic and media discourses takes place is the subject of Marjorie Perloff's groundbreaking study. Radical Artifice considers what happens when the \"natural speech\" model inherited from the great Modernist poets comes up against the \"natural speech\" of the Donahue \"talk show,\" or again, how visual poetics and verse forms are responding to the languages of billboards and sound bytes. Among the many poets whose works are discussed are John Ashbery, George Oppen, Susan Howe, Clark Coolidge, Lyn Hejinian, Leslie Scalapino, Charles Bernstein, Johanna Drucker, and Steve McCaffery. But the strongest presence in Perloff's book is John Cage, a \"poet\" better known as a composer, a philosopher, a printmaker, and one who understood, almost half a century ago, that from now on no word, musical note, painted surface, or theoretical statement could ever again escape \"contamination\" from the media landscape in which we live. It is under his sign that Radical Artifice was composed.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57466551828853,"sku":"9780226657332","price":80.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780226657332.jpg?v=1785654609"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-marjorie-perloff.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}