Definition of "poetics" [po•et•ics]

• Literary criticism that deals with the nature, forms, and laws of poetry. (noun)
• A treatise on or study of poetry or aesthetics. (noun)
• The practice of writing poetry; poetic composition. (noun)

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• "While this might be referred to as a poetics of labor it challenges the notion of what it means to be a poet if we consider poetry as also way of surviving and living in the world."
• "The tone of your critique seems to say that conceptual poetics is not enough and in some way needs to move outside of its own discourse in order to validate your own sense of worth, which is something that conceptual poetics may never do: might be a case of round pegs in square holes."
• "The goal in immersive textuality, similar to that of McGann's quantum poetics, is to create"