From Deleuze and Guattari’s essay on “Minor Literature” to Alfred Arteaga’s work on Chicanx poetics, theorists have studied the relationship between power and language, describing how creative writers find inventive ways to interrogate monolingual and nationalist logics.[1] Often, personal as well as historical conditions shape an author’s linguistic choices. My interest here lies in how poets use citation and translation as craft techniques in forging poetic languages that challenge powerful configurations and histories.
Patterns/Contexts/Time: A Symposium on Contemporary Poetry (1990)
edited by Phillip Foss & Charles Bernstein: pdf
Patterns/Contexts/Time: A Symposium on Contemporary Poetry, ed. Phillip Foss & Bernstein in Tyuonyi (Sante Fe, 1990), 128pp: pdf