Postmodern Poetry
"Superior Lake" by Lorine Niedecker as an Example
Taiwanese Postmodern Poetry (an Outline in Chinese)
Postmodern poetics respond to the condition of the world. In an age of instant telecommunications and metropolitan life, the postmodern serial and procedural forms attempt to accommodate the overwhelming diversity of messages and the lapse of a grand order that is replaced by an arbitrary personal order.
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Questions:
- Does postmodern poetics break completely from modern and the Coleridgean theory of organic form?
- How does postmodern poetics correspond with theory of postmodern fiction?
References
Conte, Joseph M. Unending Design: the Form of Postmodern Poetry. Introduction.
McCorkle, James. "The Inscription of Postmodernism in Poetry"
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VIII. Lorine Niedecker's finite serial form: "Lake Superior"
VII. Procedural form
VI. Serial form
V. General concepts of serial and procedural forms
IV. Postmodernism
III. Modernism
II. Self
I. Language
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