a common idiom ... call it a place
Building on recent studies of the relationship between visual poetries and eco-poetics, this essay argues that language conceived of as systematic is an important consideration in the work of Thomas A. Clark. Beginning with readings of some of his meta-poetical work from the early 1970s, the essay s...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Open Library of Humanities
2019-05-01
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| Series: | Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry |
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| Online Access: | https://poetry.openlibhums.org/article/id/733/ |
| Summary: | Building on recent studies of the relationship between visual poetries and eco-poetics, this essay argues that language conceived of as systematic is an important consideration in the work of Thomas A. Clark. Beginning with readings of some of his meta-poetical work from the early 1970s, the essay suggests that the overt interest in poetic language as a system analogous to an ecosystem continues into Clark’s later writing, though in a less overt, more ephemeralized manner. The essay explores ways in which Clark conceives of poetry as anti-entropic activity in a language system. |
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| ISSN: | 1758-972X |