{"product_id":"infrathin-an-experiment-in-micropoetics-paperback","title":"Infrathin: An Experiment in Micropoetics - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMarjorie Perloff\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEsteemed literary critic Marjorie Perloff reconsiders the nature of the poetic, examining its visual, grammatical, and sound components.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The \"infrathin\" was Marcel Duchamp's playful name for the most minute shade of difference: that between the report of a gunshot and the appearance of the bullet hole, or between two objects in a series made from the same mold. \"Eat\" is not the same thing as \"ate.\" The poetic, Marjorie Perloff suggests, can best be understood as the language of infrathin. For in poetry, whether in verse or prose, words and phrases that are seemingly unrelated in ordinary discourse are realigned by means of sound, visual layout, etymology, grammar, and construction so as to \"make it new.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In her revisionist \"micropoetics,\" Perloff draws primarily on major modernist poets from Stein and Yeats to Beckett, suggesting that the usual emphasis on what this or that poem is \"about,\" does not do justice to its infrathin possibilities. From Goethe's eight-line \"Wanderer's Night Song\" to Eliot's \u003ci\u003eFour Quartets\u003c\/i\u003e, to the minimalist lyric of Rae Armantrout, \u003ci\u003eInfrathin \u003c\/i\u003eis designed to challenge our current habits of reading and to answer the central question: what is it that makes poetry \u003ci\u003epoetry\u003c\/i\u003e?\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMarjorie Perloff\u003c\/b\u003e is the Sadie Dernham Patek Professor of Humanities Emerita at Stanford University and the Florence R. Scott Professor of English Emerita at the University of Southern California. She is the author of many books on poetry, including \u003ci\u003eRadical Artifice\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWittgenstein's Ladder\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eUnoriginal Genius\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 03, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42160826482823,"sku":"9780226798509","price":52.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/402e2c334f9bfcc87c087cc2917c6d77.webp?v=1733276295","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/infrathin-an-experiment-in-micropoetics-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}