Discrepant Engagement

Nathaniel Mackey

• Paperback | Engels | Modern and Contemporary Poetics
• This highly regarded and frequently referenced work of literary criticism is essential to any study of avant garde poetics. Nathaniel Mackey addresses... Lees meer

American Poetry as Transactional Art

Stephen Fredman

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• Explores the ways American poetry engages with visual art, music, fiction, spirituality, and performance art Many people think of poetry as a hermetic... Lees meer

Omnicompetent Modernists

Matthew Hofer

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• An innovative exploration of early twentieth-century avant-garde poetry's relationship to the public sphere "It is difficult / to get the news from po... Lees meer

Intricate Thicket

Mark Scroggins

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• In Intricate Thicket: Reading Late Modernist Poetries , Mark Scroggins writes with wit and dash about a fascinating range of key twentieth- and twenty... Lees meer

Every Goodbye Ain't Gone

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• Showcases brilliant and experimental work in African American poetry. Just prior to the Second World War, and even more explosively in the 1950s and 1... Lees meer

Bowed Some, Chanted a Little

Philip Whalen

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• The literary journals of a key figure in both the Beat and San Francisco Renaissance movements of the New American Poetry, and an ordained Zen Buddhis... Lees meer

Fieldworks

Lytle Shaw

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• Fieldworks offers a historical account of the social, rhetorical, and material attempts to ground art and poetry in the physicality of a site. Arguing... Lees meer

Experience

Norman Fischer

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• By what narrow path is the ineffable silence of Zen cleft by the scratch of a pen? The distilled insights of forty years, Norman Fischer's Experience:... Lees meer

Calligraphy Typewriters

Larry Eigner

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• The first and only single-volume collection of Larry Eigner's most significant poems, gathering in one place the most celebrated of the several thousa... Lees meer

Blue Studios

Rachel Blau Duplessis

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• Examines the work of experimental poets and the innovative forms they create to disrupt assumptions about gender and cultural power In her now-classic... Lees meer

Led by Language

Rachel Back

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• This first full-length study of Susan Howe illuminates the historical, autobiographical, and theoretical influences that underlie the work of this eni... Lees meer

Simulcast

Benjamin Friedlander

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• A provocative overview of avant-garde American poetry of the past 25 years that raises important questions about the practice of criticism Simulcast o... Lees meer

Finding the Weight of Things

George Hart

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• An innovative study of how a prescient poet imagined ecology and embodiment Larry Eigner (1927-1996) wrote thousands of poems in his lifetime, despite... Lees meer

Architectural Body

Shusaku Arakawa, Madeline Gins

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• A verbal articulation of the authors' visionary theory of how the human body, architecture, and creativity define and sustain one another This revolut... Lees meer

Hart Crane

Brian M Reed

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• A critical reassessment of the life's work of a major American poet. With his suicide in 1932, Hart Crane left behind a small body of work-- White Bui... Lees meer

Hart Crane

Brian M Reed

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• A critical reassessment of the life's work of a major American poet. With his suicide in 1932, Hart Crane left behind a small body of work-- White Bui... Lees meer

We Who Love to Be Astonished

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• The first critical volume devoted to the full range of women's postmodern works We Who Love to Be Astonished collects a powerful group of previously u... Lees meer

Distant Reading

Peter Middleton

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• A dynamic account of the history, practice, and theory of poetry as performance. Distant Reading considers poetry as performance, offers new insights ... Lees meer

Poetics & Polemics

Jerome Rothenberg

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• Poetics & Polemics, 1980-2005 brings together in one volume a wide-ranging selection of essays and commentaries by one of the most significant poets, ... Lees meer

The Astonishment Tapes

Robin Blaser

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• The edited transcript of revealing autobiographical audiotapes recorded by the groundbreaking poet Robin Blaser Robin Blaser moved from his native Ida... Lees meer

Artifice and Indeterminacy

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• Brings together the most important writings on contemporary poetics Artifice and Indeterminacy gathers the strongest and most representative writings ... Lees meer

A Poetics of Impasse in Modern and Contemporary American Poetry

Susan M Schultz

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• A noted critic addresses the problem of silence in contemporary experimental poetry Silence, as Susan M. Schultz argues here, is an intellectual and a... Lees meer

The Darkness of the Present

Steve McCaffery

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• The Darkness of the Present includes essays that collectively investigate the roles of anomaly and anachronism as they work to unsettle commonplace no... Lees meer

Radical Affections

Miriam Nichols

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• A study of six poets central to the New American poetry--Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Jack Spicer, Robin Blaser, and Susan Howe--with... Lees meer