Disobedience: The Defiance of Genre in Contemporary English Language Writing

Harvard FAS

“Poetry is the new space of possibility and everyone knows it,” writes Eileen Myles, thereby defining poetry as possibility rather than anything whose boundaries can be prescribed. As Myles explains, “a lot of things that people like are beginning to need to happen in the same pieces of writing and those things may be gossip, theory, sexual description, or simply an implication that it’s there or just happened (art).” We will explore this principled disobedience…