Poetry and the Extremities of Language: From Concretism to Paul Celan

Despite his disdain for most contemporary German language poets, Paul Celan in his own verse shares and reflects in several ways the attitudes toward language and the possibilities of poetic speech found in the practitioners of so-called "concrete poetry." Skeptical of language that had fa...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: James K. Lyon
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: New Prairie Press 1983-09-01
Series:Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Online Access:http://newprairiepress.org/sttcl/vol8/iss1/5