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Callie Gardner's debut collection of poetry, part manifesto, part lyrical essay. A remarkable collection transmitting the reader through various discourses and offering a litberation from the violent expectations of living to reproduce bodies, feelings, and nations.

The influence of Roland Barthes on contemporary culture has been the subject of much analysis, but never before has this influence been closely examined in relation to poetry. This innovative study traces Anglophone poetry's response to the literary and cultural theory of Barthes - from debate to adoption, adaptation and rejection.

What kinds of pleasure do we take from writing and reading? What authority has the writer over a text? What are the limits of language's ability to communicate ideas and emotions? Moreover, what are the political limitations of these questions? The work of the French cultural critic and theorist Roland Barthes (1915-80) poses these questions, and has become influential in doing so, but the precise nature of that influence is often taken for gr...