Paratextual Communities: American Avant-Garde Poetry since 1950 by Associate Professor Susan Vanderborg PhD - 2001-12-13

Southern Illinois University Pre, 12/13/2001 12:00:01. hardcover. Good. 0.7402 9.2992 6.3819.

Carbondale, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press, 2001. AP5 - A first edition (numberline starts at "1") hardcover book SIGNED by author (first name only) and inscribed to previous owner on the half-title page in very good condition in very good dust jacket that is mylar protected. Book lightly bowed, dust jacket and book have some bumped corners, light discoloration and shelf wear. 9.25"x6.25", 156 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Susan Vanderborg examines the role of paratexts - notes, prefaces, marginalia, and source documents - in shaping the reading communities for American experimental poetry published since 1950. Since 1950, Vanderborg notes, American avant-garde poetry has been dominated by two seemingly contradictory impulses: a disruption of language as transparent communication and a need to contextualize the poets' word games for readers. For many authors, the solution has been the creation of a split text - a difficult, elliptical, disjunctive poetry… Read More

Southern Illinois University Press, 2001. hardcover. fine/fine.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2001. First Edition. Cloth. Very good/Very good -. Black cloth covered boards, titles embossed in bronze at spine, corners straight. Dust jacket shows light shelf wear to edges, sunning to spine, no cuts or tears, archival Brodart protected, previous vendor sticker affixed to back cover on top of protective covering. Book body clean and tight.