Abstract

One of the most experimental trends in American poetry at the beginning of the 21^st century is represented by the Conceptual poetry movement, which, while continuing the avant-garde principles of the last century, discovers new paths towards an interesting, but highly controversial poeticity. The present paper is an analysis of the Conceptual poets’ struggle against expression, for the sake of a type of poetry that is deliberately anti-aesthetic and depersonalized. These Conceptual textual games that favour form above all else are primarily meant to meet the challenges of the digital era and its disturbing semantic anxieties