Contemporary Visual Poetry: Women Writing the Posthuman [Hardcover]

Acknowledgements

Illustrations

Chapter 1? ??????? Introduction Reclaiming Vision?

Chapter 2????????? Textual Bodies: Visual Poetry as Feminist Praxis

Chapter 3????????? The Multiple Body: Visual Poetrys Natural Histories

Chapter 4????????? Eye Witness and the Curated Language of Others

Chapter 5????????? Computational Environments and the Extended Poet

Bibliography

Index

This book?includes conceptual printed works, poem-objects, texts for performance, and computational poetry that shape a posthumanist understanding which is situated. Part of the material turn, it fashions modes of complex embodiment in relation to the global crises of our moment: environmental, economic and ethical.

Contemporary Visual Poetics?not only?offers?an important rethinking of the history of extended poetics, as its author?Fiona Becket names it, but breaks essential new ground across technologies which many critics still feel unsure of how to read. This book provides a vocabulary and a profound understanding of posthuman existence played out in the avant-garde poem, mapping new ways that such work is?impacting its society and environment.?Becket's connection of her core investigation to ecocritical thinking  and therefore our current (we hope not final) emergencies  also makes this intervention timely, even urgent.

--Romana Huk,?Associate Professor,?University of Notre Dame, USA

This book examines contemporary visual poetry and how conceptual writing, poem-objects, and computational texts shape a posthumanist understanding that is situated. First, the eye is theorised with respect to ethical understanding. When visual poets reclaim vision, visual poetics becomes a feminist praxis. In Paula l“™