Language poets

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avant-garde literary movement poetry movement

Language poets were an experimental group of late-20th-century American writers who emphasized the materiality of language and challenged traditional notions of lyric voice, narrative, and reference.

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Label	Occurrences
Language poets canonical	8
Language poetry	5

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	avant-garde literary movement ⓘ poetry movement ⓘ
activePeriod	late 20th century ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
field	contemporary poetry ⓘ
genre	experimental poetry ⓘ
hasCharacteristic	attention to discourse and power relations ⓘ blurring of boundaries between poetry and theory ⓘ challenge to traditional lyric voice ⓘ collective and collaborative practices ⓘ collective identity rather than single school doctrine ⓘ critique of capitalist language and ideology ⓘ decentering of the lyrical subject ⓘ disruption of narrative continuity ⓘ emphasis on language as social construct ⓘ emphasis on materiality of language ⓘ emphasis on writing as process ⓘ engagement with visual and concrete poetry practices ⓘ experimentation with lineation and page layout ⓘ experimentation with prose poetry and hybrid forms ⓘ interest in theory and criticism ⓘ intertextuality ⓘ metalinguistic focus ⓘ nonlinear syntax ⓘ politicized view of language ⓘ readerly participation in meaning-making ⓘ rejection of transparent reference ⓘ self-reflexivity ⓘ skepticism toward expressive authenticity ⓘ small-press and little-magazine publication ⓘ use of collage and montage techniques ⓘ use of everyday and non-poetic discourses ⓘ use of fragmentation ⓘ use of parataxis ⓘ use of procedural and constraint-based methods ⓘ
inception	1970s ⓘ
influencedBy	Marxist theory ⓘ Russian formalism ⓘ surface form: Russian Formalism Wittgensteinian philosophy of language ⓘ modernist poetry ⓘ poststructuralism ⓘ structuralism ⓘ
language	English ⓘ
movement	Language poets self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Language poetry
movementCenter	New York City ⓘ San Francisco Bay Area ⓘ
publicationVenue	L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E magazine ⓘ This (magazine) ⓘ small-press chapbooks ⓘ