American Hybrid Poetics : Rutgers University Press : 9780813564647 : 0813564646 : 21 Jul 2014 :  American Hybrid Poetics explores the ways in which hybrid poetics?a playful mixing of disparate formal and aesthetic strategies?have been the driving force in the work of a historically and culturally diverse group of women poets who are part of a robust tradition in contesting the dominant cultural order.  Amy Moorman Robbins examines the ways in which five poets?Gertrude Stein, Laura Mullen, Alice Notley, Harryette Mullen, and Claudia Rankine?use hybridity as an implicitly political strategy to interrupt mainstream American language, literary genres, and visual culture, and expose the ways in which mass culture in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries has had a powerfully standardizing impact on the collective American imagination. By forcing encounters between incompatible traditions?consumer culture with the avant-garde, low culture forms with experimental poetics, prose poetry with