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Poetry and Displacement Stan Smith The last one hundred years have been an era of unprecedented displacements in many senses, opening with the accelerating drift of rural populations into the great metropolises of successive empires and the diasporas that forged the modern United States and any number of smaller nations. These processes almost inevitably fostered a poetry of exile and expatriation intimately bound up with the experience of modernity and the culture of modernism, culminating, in the postcolonial era, with the globalization of displacement as the determining condition of postmodernity. Written by a leading poetry critic, Poetry & Displacement explores this phenomenon and will be required reading for scholars of contemporary poetry. For further information or to order this book please click link below http://www.liverpool-unipress.co.uk/html/publication.asp?idProduct=3726 LUP books are distributed in North America by University of Chicago Press. For further information or to order this book please click link below http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/256084.ctl Poetry and Language Writing David Arnold 'An important study with an original thesis that is tightly argued... it has much to offer the study of contemporary American poetry.' Robert Sheppard, Edge Hill University It has been variously labelled 'Language Poetry', 'Language Writing', 'L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E writing' (after the magazine that ran from 1978 to 1981), and 'language-centred writing'. It has been variously defined as non-referential or of diminished reference, as textual poetry or a critique of expressivism, as a reaction against the 'workshop' poetry enshrined in creative writing departments across the United States. It has been variously described as non-academic, theory conscious, avant-garde, post-modern, and oppositional. It has been placed according to its geographical positions, on East or West coasts; its venues in small magazines, independent presses and performance spaces, and its descent from historical precursors, be they the Objectivists, the composers-by-field of the Black Mountain School, the Russian Constructivists or American modernism à la William Carlos Williams and Gertrude Stein. Indeed, one of the few statements that can be made about it with little qualification is that 'it' has both fostered and endured a crisis in representation more or less since it first became visible in the 1970s. In this timely new book David Arnold grasps the nettle of Language poetry reassessing its relationship with surrealism and providing a scholarly, intelligent way of understanding this mode of writing. Poets discussed include Charles Bernstein, Susan Howe, Michael Palmer and Barrett Watten. For further information or to order this book please click link below http://www.liverpool-unipress.co.uk/html/publication.asp?idProduct=3725 LUP books are distributed in North America by University of Chicago Press. For further information or to order this book please click link below http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/256077.ctl Adrian Henri Selected and Unpublished ed. Catherine Marcangeli foreword by Carol Ann Duffy "How often do you have the chance to meet somebody so multi-talented that no other cliché is appropriate than 'Rennaissance Man'? In my experience - never. Until Adrian Henri." Bel Mooney, The Times Poet, painter of international repute, librettist, playwright, rock-and-roll provocateur, Adrian Henri was at the centre of Liverpool's cultural awakening in the 1960s. This new volume presents a selection of the poet's most famous work, as well as the unpublished collection he was working on at the time of his death. A selection of Henri's paintings and reminiscences by critically acclaimed writers and long-time friends of Henri, such as Carol Ann Duffy and Roger McGough, round out this essential volume. For further information or to order this book please click link below http://www.liverpool-unipress.co.uk/html/publication.asp?idProduct=3784 LUP books are distributed in North America by University of Chicago Press. For further information or to order this book please click link below http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/255984.ctl If you would like to join our poetry mailing list or you would like further information on this or any other LUP title please contact us on +44 [0]151 794 2233 or email [log in to unmask] SIMON BELL SALES & MARKETING MANAGER, LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY PRESS 4 Cambridge Street, Liverpool, L69 7ZU, UK Tel. +44-[0]151-794-2234, Fax +44-[0]151-794.2235 E: [log in to unmask] W: www.liverpool-unipress.co.uk This message is confidential to the intended recipient. If you have received it by mistake, please notify the sender by email or telephone. Any attachment has been virus-checked, but no responsibility is accepted for any virus unintentionally transmitted.