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What is the internet doing to poetry? Good question! In Nothingism, Jason Schneiderman grapples with the way that digital culture has begun to reshape America's poetry landscape, examining this profound shift in the way that poetry is written, read, and taught. He dives into the history of the poetic line and how previous media (oral, manuscript, print) have shaped our understanding of exactly what a poem is. In considering the transformations of poetry in the digital age, he finds that the transition from print to digital culture mirrors the earlier transition from manuscript to print culture.
In this collection, the essays range from blistering manifesto to deep historical dives to gentle classroom guidance to considerations of the poems of James Merrill and Agha Shahid Ali, moving between the theoretical and the practical. Nothingism is both deeply personal and highly erudite, providing an engaging and scholarly account of reading, writing, and teaching poetry as our world continues its unsupervised lurch toward digital culture.
Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1 - Nothingism: A Manifesto
Chapter 2 - A History and Theory of the Line in English Language Poetry
Chapter 3 - How the Sonnet Turns: From a Fold to a Helix
Chapter 4 - I Thought I Hated Inaugural Poems (But It Turns Out I Don't)
Chapter 5 - A Rising Tide Floats All Boats: Ten Lessons from a Quarter Century of Teaching
Chapter 6 - Notes on Not Writing: Revisiting The Changing Light at Sandover
Chapter 7 - The Loved One Always Leaves: The Poetic Friendship of Agha Shahid Ali and James Merrill
Acknowledgments
