Telling It Slant: Avant-Garde Poetics of the 1990s

Telling It Slant: Avant-Garde Poetics of the 1990s collects essays on the issues driving the poetic generation just now coming to the fore. Edited by George Washington University's Mark Wallace and scholar Steven Marks, the book includes 26 pieces from Steve Evans, Harryette Mullen, Brian Kim Stefans, Kristin Prevallet, Jeff Derksen, Sianne Ngai, Caroline Bergvall, Bill Luoma, Benjamin Friedlander, C.S. Giscombe, Rod Smith, Juliana Spahr and others. Most of the pieces are short, pointed meditations, short on footnotes and long on invention. Capitalism, marginality, disjunction, graphical disruption, race and gender identification, cogent analysis, political and poetic history, disgust, exhaustion, dialogue and agonism figure prominently, often inspiringly.