Download or read book A Poetics of Impasse in Modern and Contemporary American Poetry written by Susan M. Schultz and published by Modern and Contemporary Poetic. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addresses the problem of silence in contemporary experimental poetry and examines silence as an aesthetic strategy in itself. The result is an extended meditation on the precarious balance among competing forces in liberating poetic discourse from the realms of silence and the impasses it creates.