Contemporary Women's Poetry and Urban Space: Experimental Cities [Hardcover]

This book focuses on the role of the city, and its processes of mutual transformation, in poetry by experimental women writers. Readings of their work are placed in the context of theories of urban space, while new visions of the contemporary city and its global relationships are drawn from their innovations in language and form.Acknowledgements Introduction PART I: LOCATION 1. Address and Rhythm PART II: VISION, POWER AND KNOWLEDGE 2. Alice Notley: Disobedient Cities 3. Lisa Samuels: Unknown Cities PART III: LANGUAGE AND LOCALITY 4. Geraldine Monk's Restless Soil 5. ?gnes Leh?czky and the Palimpsestic City PART IV: POLIS 6. Er?n Moure's Irruptive Citizenship 7. Lisa Robertson: Prosody of the Polis PART V: ACTS OF ATTENTION 8. Against Background: Reframings of the City 9. Performance and Absence in the Heterotopian City Conclusion

Zo? Skoulding is Lecturer in the School of English at Bangor University, UK, and has been Editor of the international quarterly Poetry Wales since 2008. She is a poet whose recent collections of poems include Remains of a Future City (2008), long-listed for Wales Book of the Year 2009, and The Mirror Trade (2004)

'Contemporary Women's Poetry and Urban Space is a fascinating read with an excellent balance of general theoretical insight and close textual analysis of some very challenging work. Skoulding draws together disparate practices and theories to weave together a picture of innovative, gendered poetry and poetics developed by a range of international poets in response to the city. Her wide reference helps her achieve a global, though not totalizing, perspective and it is instructive and inspiring to see these poets brought together within the covers of one book.' - Harriet Tarlo, Sheffield Hallam University, UK