antipoetry

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noun A literary movement that attempts to break away from the normal conventions of poetry.

anti- +‎ poetry

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I was in part concerned with discussing issues raised by Stanley Kunitz in his very interesting introduction to the poems of Michael Casey in which Mr. Kunitz calls Casey's work "antipoetry" (a phrase I questioned) and compares it with the work of Owen, Jarrell, and other earlier war poets; and in part with attempting to relate the actual achievement of the poets in their poems with the statement of the editors (one of whom is Mr. Barry) in their "Note to the Reader" as to the very practical and utilitarian ways in which these poems should be used as propaganda against the war in Vietnam.

Cultural Barbarians? Paquet, Basil T. 1973