Poetics of Waste: Queer Excess in Stein, Ashbery, Schuyler, and Goldsmith by Christopher Schmidt

Poetics of Waste: Queer Excess in Stein, Ashbery, Schuyler, and Goldsmith

Christopher Schmidt

245 pages first pub 2014 (editions)

challenging informative medium-paced

Description

Modernist debates about waste - both aesthetic and economic - often express biases against gender and sexual errancy. The Poetics of Waste looks at writers and artists who resist this ideology and respond by developing an excessive poetics.

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