"What Good Is Poetry and How Do You Get to Change the World": Hannah Weiner's Clairvoyance as Translation.
This essay considers the Language poetry of Hannah Weiner to address an interpretative problem regarding how to recognize a voice from the outside that insists upon its irreducible otherness, and yet demands to be heard. Topics covered include the poetic alignment of Weiner with Language poetry, an...
| Published in: | Contemporary Literature Vol. 59; no. 3; pp. 363 - 397 |
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University of Wisconsin Press
Fall2018
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| Summary: | This essay considers the Language poetry of Hannah Weiner to address an interpretative problem regarding how to recognize a voice from the outside that insists upon its irreducible otherness, and yet demands to be heard. Topics covered include the poetic alignment of Weiner with Language poetry, an alternative to the democratic utopianism imagined for Language innovations offered by the clairvoyant writings of Weiner, and the ethical aporias of translation demanded by Weiner's writing. |
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