Deleuze, Guattari and the Schizoanalysis of Poetry

Applies the Deleuze-Guattarian project of schizoanalysis to reading contemporary poetry

• Exemplifies ways to apply Deleuze-Guattarian concepts to reading cotemporary poetry, and in the process puts forward a schizoanalytic poetics
• Highlights key debates, themes and problems relevant to twenty-first-century poetry and poetics
• Uses Deleuze-Guattarian concepts to explore different ways of thinking about poetry, as well as the thinking that is particular to poetry

Jason Skeet investigates how to apply the Deleuze-Guattarian project of schizoanalysis to engage with themes and problems relevant to twenty-first-century poetry. With concepts taken from both solo and collaborative works by Deleuze and Guattari, Skeet examines how their work can offer fresh ways of thinking about poetry.

He focuses on the work of six poets — Charles Bernstein, Robert Lax, Maggie O’Sullivan, Pierre Joris, Kenneth White and Bhanu Kapil — and offers readings of the poetry which explore how poetry can be said to be innovative, in what ways poems imagine new realities, and how poetry can be thought of as a disruption of linguistic and poetic conventions.

Deleuze, Guattari and the Schizoanalysis of Poetry sets out in detail what a schizoanalytic poetics involves and explores how reading poetry with Deleuze and Guattari can become an extension of the poetry itself.