Lines by Someone Else: the Pragmatics of Apprompted Poems
Description:
Over the last sixty years, overtly intertextual poems with titles such as “Poem Beginning with a Line by John Ashbery” and “Poem Ending with a Line by George W. Bush” have been appearing at an increasing rate in magazines and collections. These poems wed themselves to other texts and authors in distinct ways, inviting readers to engage with poems which are, themselves, in conversation with lines from elsewhere. These poems, which I refer to as “apprompted” poems, explicitly challenge readers to…
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Date:
August 2015
Creator:
Gibson, Kimberly Dawn
Partner:
UNT Libraries