Description
The cognitive research Luck draws upon suggests that the strangeness of experimental poetry can reshape the activity of the reader's mind, creating new forms of attention, perception, and cognition. This book closes by shifting from theory to praxis, extracting forms of teaching from the forms of thinking that experimental poems instill in order to better enable their transformative effects in readers and to bring poetry pedagogy into the twenty-first century.
About the Author
Jessica Lewis Luck is professor of English at California State University, San Bernardino. She lives in Redlands, California.
Reviews
"A pleasure to read. Poetics of Cognition makes a significant contribution, both in its general thesis about the cognitive effects of experimental poetry and its generous, insightful readings of the individual poets and poems." - N. Katherine Hayles, author, Unthought: The Power of the Cognitive Nonconscious
"This is a timely, highly intelligent, well-informed study of contemporary poetry that should be widely welcomed. Jessica Lewis Luck is a first-rate close reader of poems; her detailed analyses are deft, incisive, original, and pacey." - Peter Middleton, author, Expanding Authorship: Transformations in American Poetry since 1950
Book Information
ISBN 9781609389055
Author Jessica Lewis Luck
Format Paperback
Page Count 228
Imprint University of Iowa Press
Publisher University of Iowa Press
Weight(grams) 272g