[Englecturers] FW: The Place of Place in Contemporary Experimental Poetry (3/25/06; MLA '06)

[Steven Axelrod]

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Subject: CFP: The Place of Place in Contemporary Experimental Poetry
(3/25/06; MLA '06)



In order to imagine a place
must we inhabit it?

and by inhabiting, raze the imagination
that made it?

Catherine Kasper (1)

If experimental poets often seek to empty conceptual categories, 
including constructions of place, how, then, is the lived experience of 
place represented in their work? According to geographer Miles 
Richardson, place is "both grounded in the physical world and . . . 
lodged in the world of symbolic discourse," "something fixed and 
fleeting, something you can walk on and something you can speak" (2). 
The notion of a dialogue between the two realms of groundedness and 
symbolic expression may provide an entrance to the consideration of the 
place of place in contemporary experimental poetry, in which the 
destabilization of social constructions, nostalgic idealisms, and 
mythologizing is in dialogue with the acknowledgement of lived 
experience in the here and now.

This panel will explore issues of place in particular contemporary 
experimental poets. Theoretical explorations might include (but are not 
limited to) recent writings on place in social anthropology and 
cultural geography, such as the work of Miles Richardson, Margaret 
Rodman, J. Nicholas Entrikin, Yi-Fu Tuan, and Arjun Appadurai.

Please email a 400- to 500-word proposal with a brief cv by March 25, 
2006, to c8martin at ryerson.ca

The 2006 MLA Convention will be in Philadelphia, December 27-30.

Camille Martin, Ph.D.
Ryerson University
Toronto, ON
CANADA

NOTES
1. Katherine Kasper, Blueprints of the City (Denver: Transparent Tiger 
Press, 2000), 20.

2. Miles Richardson, "Introduction," in Place: Experience and Symbol, 
Geoscience and Man, ed. Miles Richardson, vol. 24 (Baton Rouge: 
Geoscience Publications, Department of Geography and Anthropology, 
Louisiana State University, 1984), 1.

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