antipoetic

[ an-tee-poh-et-ik, an-tahy- ]

adjective

1. of or relating to elements or techniques used in a poem not conventionally thought to be suitable or traditional.

Word History and Origins

Origin of antipoetic¹

First recorded in 1840–50; anti- + poetic

Example Sentences

Bolaño was one such fan of Di Benedetto’s books, and the posthumous fame of Bolaño’s hardboiled, antipoetic fiction, so far from the surreal and sometimes whimsical tropics of magical realism, may have prepared a welcome for Di Benedetto.

From The New Yorker

Having blared this raspberry into the face of the "antipoetic world of commerce and bureaucracy," tetchy Poet Graves admits that he has been forced to spend much of the last quarter-century earning bread for his seven children by churning out historical novels for the antipoetic market.

From Time Magazine Archive

He is fascinated by variation within repetition, but he never thinks of repetition as being antipoetic because, in fact, nothing is exactly the same as anything else: two slices of the same pie are never identical.

From Time Magazine Archive