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

How this entity was disambiguated

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NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Language poets
Context triple: [Black Mountain poets, influenced, Language poets]

A. Dunbar Poets
Dunbar Poets is the boys’ basketball team of Paul Laurence Dunbar High School in Baltimore, Maryland, renowned as a national powerhouse that has produced numerous elite college and professional players.
B. Poetry
Poetry is a Python dependency management and packaging tool that simplifies creating, building, and publishing Python projects.
C. The Poets
The Poets is the English title of the 26th chapter (Surah Ash-Shu'ara) of the Qur'an, which focuses on the stories of earlier prophets and contrasts divine revelation with the misleading speech of poets and disbelievers.
D. Poemata
Poemata is a collection of Latin poems by the Swiss polymath Albrecht von Haller, reflecting his prominence in 18th-century scientific and literary circles.
E. Romantic poets
Romantic poets were late 18th- and early 19th-century writers who emphasized emotion, individual experience, imagination, and the sublime power of nature in reaction against Enlightenment rationalism and industrialization.
F. None of above. chosen
G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Language poets
Target entity description: 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.

A. Dunbar Poets
Dunbar Poets is the boys’ basketball team of Paul Laurence Dunbar High School in Baltimore, Maryland, renowned as a national powerhouse that has produced numerous elite college and professional players.
B. Poetry
Poetry is a Python dependency management and packaging tool that simplifies creating, building, and publishing Python projects.
C. The Poets
The Poets is the English title of the 26th chapter (Surah Ash-Shu'ara) of the Qur'an, which focuses on the stories of earlier prophets and contrasts divine revelation with the misleading speech of poets and disbelievers.
D. Poemata
Poemata is a collection of Latin poems by the Swiss polymath Albrecht von Haller, reflecting his prominence in 18th-century scientific and literary circles.
E. Romantic poets
Romantic poets were late 18th- and early 19th-century writers who emphasized emotion, individual experience, imagination, and the sublime power of nature in reaction against Enlightenment rationalism and industrialization.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (49)

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 ⓘ

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