Unoriginal Genius: Poetry by Other Means in the New Century – $525
by rgonzalezr
What is the place of individual genius in a global world of hyper-information— a world in which, as Walter Benjamin predicted more than seventy years ago, everyone is potentially an author? For poets in such a climate, “originality” begins to take a back seat to what can be done with other people’s words—framing, citing, recycling, and otherwise mediating available words and sentences, and sometimes entire texts. Marjorie Perloff here explores this intriguing development in contemporary poetry: the embrace of “unoriginal” […]
Categories: Ensayo, Poesía • Tags: Brazilian concrete Poetry, Chicago University Press, citing, copying, lenguaje, literatura, Poesía, stealing, Unoriginal Genius, Walter Benjamin, written word