Abstract
Building on recent studies of the relationship between visual poetries and eco-poetics, this essay argues that language conceived of as systematic is an important consideration in the work of Thomas A. Clark. Beginning with readings of some of his meta-poetical work from the early 1970s, the essay suggests that the overt interest in poetic language as a system analogous to an ecosystem continues into Clark’s later writing, though in a less overt, more ephemeralized manner. The essay explores ways in which Clark conceives of poetry as anti-entropic activity in a language system.
Original language | English |
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Article number | bip.733 |
Pages (from-to) | 1-26 |
Number of pages | 26 |
Journal | The Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry |
Volume | 11 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 14 May 2019 |