An essay-length review of Paul Stephens' monograph, The Poetics of Information Overload: From Gertrude Stein to Conceptual Writing (Minnesota UP, 2015).
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From the review:
"Which returns us to the central questions of Stephens' book: How might we develop a poetics that can at least adequately account for the fact that our technical means of writing, saving, sharing and storing language no longer guarantee or even privilege stability of voice and expression? How, if you like, can we read the work of poems and poets that are both hyper situated, as ourselves hyper situated readers?"
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Poetics of Information Overload
Poetics of Information Overload, 2016
(Parallax Journal of Cultural Theory)
