Context collapse

Epic in sweep, 'Context Collapse' is the secret history of the poet - from Bronze Age Greece and Renaissance Italy to the cafes of Grub Street and the Latin Quarter, from the creative writing departments of the American Midwest to the boardrooms of Silicon Valley. Cheekily introducing academic discourse, media studies, cybersemiotics, literary sociology and heterodox economics into his blank verse study of poetry, Ruby traces the delicate dance between poets, their publishers and their audiences, and shows how the social, technological and aesthetic experiments that appear in poetic language have prefigured radical changes to the ways of life of millions of people.