현대 미국시의 실험시들: 객관주의와 언어 시인들

Modern American Experimental Poetry: Objectivism and Language Poets

Objectivism has been considered as occupying a peculiar place in between the periods of modernism and the contemporary poetics of projective verse and language poetry. The emergence of language poets who were interested in such issues as the possibilities of linguistic art has been influenced by objectivism. One such example is Zukofsky, one of the representative poets of objectivism, whose works have moved out from the margin to the center stage. Objectivism and language poets try to interrogate the constructive process of the text and reveal the production of meaning itself by foregrounding the material signifier, and offering meaningless words in order. Objectivism and language poets shift our attention away from the mind’s power to interpret an object or impose meanings on a place where we can compose an “open field” of recognition and writing, where mind, thing, and language exist as objects or creatures of nature and suggest themselves. According to objectivism and language poets, a new poetics of American poetry after modernism comes into being not through such an objectification as “the complete adequacy of the external to the emotion,” but through the continuous process of “thinking with the things as they exist.”