New considerations propounded in little magazines of American innovative poetry.

Abstract

During the last two decades of the twentieth century little magazines played a significant role in the American avant-garde poetic scene. The new formal considerations propounded in these magazines violated narrative style centered on the self and gave rise to fragmentary inquisitive discourses on the relationship between the individual, writing and society. We see this clearly in the works of the so-called innovative poets, in which the prevalence of a new consciousness was developed mainly through the publication of little magazines emerging in the 1970s. They favored debates among poets and intellectuals and achieved an international audience.