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Experimental poetry that defies lyric conventions. The origins of a genre that resists representation to draw attention to how poetry is formed. A poem from Charles Bernstein's Let's Just Say. Literary innovations of early language poetry in the 1970s. How to enjoy works that are hard to understand. Bob Perelman's "Here 2" and the importance of focusing on the present, and Diane Ward's work "Cracks." Language poetry as a critique of language itself.
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