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- Title
"You'll remember Mercury": The Avant-Garde Worlds of Edwin Morgan's SF Poetry.
- Authors
McAllister, Brian J.
- Abstract
This essay investigates interactions between poetic form and science-fictional convention in the works of Scottish poet Edwin Morgan, tracing their connections to early-twentieth-century avant-garde projects. Typical histories of prose science fiction recognize the genre's conceptual innovations but denigrate its "artistic" or "literary" qualities. Through his poetry, translations, and critical writings, Morgan connects the ontological concerns of sf with the aesthetic and political concerns of avant-garde poetry, particularly the linguistic experiments of Russian Futurist zaum poetry. His work offers science fiction, especially sf poetry, as an unrecognized continuation of the avant-garde aesthetic project.
- Subjects
EXPERIMENTAL literature; ONTOLOGY in literature; MORGAN, Edwin, 1920-2010; SCIENCE fiction poetry; RUSSIAN poetry
- Publication
Science Fiction Studies, 2014, Vol 41, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
0091-7729
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.5621/sciefictstud.41.1.0001