Adopting artist-poet Joe Brainard as its principal focus, this project presents “Pop poetics” not as a minor, coterie movement meriting a sympathetic footnote in accounts of the postwar era’s literary history, but as a missing link that confounds and potentially unites any number of supposedly rigid critical distinctions . Pop poetics matter, argues Andrew Fitch, not just to the occasional aficionado of Brainard’s I Remember, but to anybody concerned with reconstructing the dynamic aesthetic exchange between postwar art and poetry.
Adopting artist-poet Joe Brainard as its principal focus, this project presents “Pop poetics” not as a minor, coterie movement meriting a sympathetic footnote in accounts of the postwar era’s literary history, but as a missing link that confounds and potentially unites any number of supposedly rigid critical distinctions . Pop poetics matter, argues Andrew Fitch, not just to the occasional aficionado of Brainard’s I Remember, but to anybody concerned with reconstructing the dynamic aesthetic exchange between postwar art and poetry.