Amrita Sharma is Assistant Professor of English at Sri Venkateswara College, University of Delhi, India. She holds a Ph.D. in English from the Department of English and Modern European Languages, University of Lucknow. During 2021–2022, she served as a Fulbright Fellow at the Center for the Study of Languages and Cultures, University of Notre Dame, USA. Her research focuses on American avant-garde literature and experimental poetics, with particular interest in how aesthetic, theoretical, and material conditions shape innovative writing practices. She is also the author of the poetry collection titled The Skies published in 2022.

This book is filled with details, providing a rich history of the subject, perhaps more comprehensibly than any other single account ... – Charles Bernstein, Donald T. Regan Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania

• Preface 1. Introduction: The Modern Age and the Rise of the Avant-garde Poetics 2. Tracing the Language Canon: Editorial Projects, Poetic Figures, and the Formation of a Community 3. Interpreting Language Poetry: Compositional Poetics, Ideological Grounds, and Practices of Reading 4. The Continuities of Language Poetics: Material Innovations, Digital Technologies and Extensions of the Experiment 5. The Experimental Arc: Language Poetry, Creative Legacies, and the Global Discourse Appendix. Poet Interviews

Amrita Sharma is Assistant Professor of English at Sri Venkateswara College, University of Delhi, India. She holds a Ph.D. in English from the Department of English and Modern European Languages, University of Lucknow. During 2021–2022, she served as a Fulbright Fellow at the Center for the Study of Languages and Cultures, University of Notre Dame, USA. Her research focuses on American avant-garde literature and experimental poetics, with particular interest in how aesthetic, theoretical, and material conditions shape innovative writing practices. She is also the author of the poetry collection titled The Skies published in 2022.

This book is filled with details, providing a rich history of the subject, perhaps more comprehensibly than any other single account ... – Charles Bernstein, Donald T. Regan Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania

• Preface 1. Introduction: The Modern Age and the Rise of the Avant-garde Poetics 2. Tracing the Language Canon: Editorial Projects, Poetic Figures, and the Formation of a Community 3. Interpreting Language Poetry: Compositional Poetics, Ideological Grounds, and Practices of Reading 4. The Continuities of Language Poetics: Material Innovations, Digital Technologies and Extensions of the Experiment 5. The Experimental Arc: Language Poetry, Creative Legacies, and the Global Discourse Appendix. Poet Interviews

Amrita Sharma is Assistant Professor of English at Sri Venkateswara College, University of Delhi, India. She holds a Ph.D. in English from the Department of English and Modern European Languages, University of Lucknow. During 2021–2022, she served as a Fulbright Fellow at the Center for the Study of Languages and Cultures, University of Notre Dame, USA. Her research focuses on American avant-garde literature and experimental poetics, with particular interest in how aesthetic, theoretical, and material conditions shape innovative writing practices. She is also the author of the poetry collection titled The Skies published in 2022.

This book is filled with details, providing a rich history of the subject, perhaps more comprehensibly than any other single account ... – Charles Bernstein, Donald T. Regan Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania

• Preface 1. Introduction: The Modern Age and the Rise of the Avant-garde Poetics 2. Tracing the Language Canon: Editorial Projects, Poetic Figures, and the Formation of a Community 3. Interpreting Language Poetry: Compositional Poetics, Ideological Grounds, and Practices of Reading 4. The Continuities of Language Poetics: Material Innovations, Digital Technologies and Extensions of the Experiment 5. The Experimental Arc: Language Poetry, Creative Legacies, and the Global Discourse Appendix. Poet Interviews