Contemporary Women's Poetry and Urban Space

It is something of a truism that the unresting complex of the city space, literary and otherwise, does not welcome women, arguably still less those who happen to be poets. This is partly why, for Peter Barry, a distinctively female and concertedly antipossessive tendency to “internalize” (urban) geography produced a turn-of-the-century poetics both more radical in technique and more energetically inclined to avoid “the direct representation of place” (16–17). Authored by an accomplished practitioner of what we might call poetic urbanism, Zoë Skoulding’s beautifully made study converses with both insights in its conviction that any poetry that resonates with theoretical concerns “may equally confront and challenge them” (213). Mobilizing an impressive range of writers, Skoulding opts to privilege the “experimental” for its “ambiguous relationships to scientific process, experience and chance” (1). This conceptual center anchors a panoply of negotiated intersections between the material, aesthetic, linguistic, and performative life of the poetic text; the sensate, psychic, and ideological body; and the in/visible dis/organizing dis/embodied structures, events, and possibilities of the city, “a space of experiment inhabited by, or paralleled in, poetic practice” (1). Perhaps unsurprisingly, technology and politics frequently magnetize the embodied responses to the increasingly virtual infrastructure and networks of civic experience mapped here

Aesthetics · Art · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Ideology · Literature · Performative utterance · Poetics · Poetry · Political science · Politics · Privilege (computing · Representation (politics · Sociology · Urbanism · Visual arts · Poetry Analysis and Criticism · Architecture · Law · Philosophy

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  Open Access•Isabel Lousada, Zsuzsanna Vargas et al.•Revista Ártemis•2020

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