Everyday Poetics

Locating poetry in a philosophy of the everyday, Brett Bourbon continues a tradition of attention to logic in everyday utterances through Wittgenstein, Austin, Quine, and Cavell, arguing that poems are events of form, not just collections of words, which shape everyone''s lives.

Poems taught in class are formalizations of the everyday poems we live amidst, albeit unknowingly. Bourbon resurrects th...