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user-inactivated  ·  3815 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 2nd Bi-Weekly Give Me a Quote from Something You've Been Reading Lately

Okay. At the risk of wasting a bit more of your time, that page didn't give me a great handle on what "language poetry" means.

    Language poetry emphasizes the reader's role in bringing meaning out of a work.

So there's more, right? I continue reading. But seriously, this sentence --

    Certain aspects of the writing of language poets became strongly associated with the members of this group: writing that challenged the "natural" presence of a speaker behind the text; writing that emphasized disjunction and the materiality of the signifier; and prose poetry, especially in longer forms than had previously been favored by English-language writers, as well as other non-traditional and usually non-narrative forms.

-- links to a) nature, about the physical universe; b) disjunction, a logic theory page; c) materiality, which is subject theory mind/matter stuff; and d) signifier, which is an in-depth semiotics page. That's a hilarious/ridiculous vintage Wikipedia sentence. It rather dances around educating me about language poetry.