Circling the Canon, Volume II

Marjorie Perloff

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• One of our most important contemporary critics, Marjorie Perloff has been a widely published and influential reviewer, especially of poetry and poetic... Lees meer

Why Should I Write a Poem Now

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• In October 1949 the poet William Carlos Williams received a letter from a young man from India who was studying engineering at Stanford University but... Lees meer

Circling the Canon, Volume I

Marjorie Perloff

• Hardcover | Engels | Recencies Series: Research and Recovery in Twentieth-Century
• One of our most important contemporary critics, Marjorie Perloff has been a widely published and influential reviewer, especially of poetry and poetic... Lees meer

A Description of Acquaintance

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• Gertrude Stein and Laura Riding enjoyed a fascinating if brief three-year friendship via correspondence between 1927 and 1930, and in A Description of... Lees meer

Amiri Baraka & Edward Dorn

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• From the end of the 1950s through the middle of the 1960s, Amiri Baraka (b. 1934) and Edward Dorn (1929-99), two self-consciously avant-garde poets, f... Lees meer

The Oppens Remembered

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• Poet George Oppen (1908-1984) and artist and writer Mary Oppen (1908-1990) were striking, exemplary, and somewhat mysterious cultural figures of the l... Lees meer

The Language Letters

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• Bruce Andrews and Charles Bernstein released the first issue of the poetics newsletter L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E in 1978, launching language-centered writing. T... Lees meer

Evaluations of Us Poetry Since 1950, Volume 2

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• Horace speaks of poetry delighting and instructing. While Evaluations of US Poetry since 1950 , Volume 1 explores the pleasures of poetry--its languag... Lees meer

The Shoshoneans

Edward Dorn, Leroy Lucas

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• First published almost fifty years ago and long out of print, The Shoshoneans is a classic American travelogue about the Great Basin and Plateau regio... Lees meer

Circling the Canon, Volume I

Marjorie Perloff

• Paperback | Engels | Recencies Series: Research and Recovery in Twentieth-Century
• One of our most important contemporary critics, Marjorie Perloff has been a widely published and influential reviewer, especially of poetry and poetic... Lees meer

Imagining Persons

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• Robert Duncan's nine lectures on Charles Olson, delivered intermittently from 1961 to 1983, explore the modernist literary background and influences o... Lees meer

Robert Duncan & the Pragmatist Sublime

James Maynard

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• This study examines the theoretical underpinnings of Robert Duncan's poetry and poetics. The author's overriding concern is Duncan's understanding of ... Lees meer

How Long Is the Present

David Antin

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• Poet, performance artist, and critic David Antin invented the "talk poem." He insists that his poems be oral and created in front of a live audience, ... Lees meer

Loose Cannons

Christopher Middleton

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• "These thirty-three prose inventions of Christopher Middleton constitute the fourth pillar of an extraordinary literary oeuvre, the other three being ... Lees meer

Bruce Andrews and Charles Bernstein's L=a=n=g=u=a=g=e

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• In February 1978, the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E newsletter, founded and edited by Charles Bernstein and Bruce Andrews, established the first public venue for th... Lees meer

The Olson Codex

Dennis Tedlock

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• This exploration of the influence of Mayan hieroglyphics on the great American poet Charles Olson (1910-1970) is an important document in the history ... Lees meer

All This Thinking

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• All This Thinking explores the deep friendship and the critical and creative thinking between Bernadette Mayer and Clark Coolidge, focusing on an inte... Lees meer

A Serpentine Gesture

Elisabeth W Joyce

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• In "A Serpentine Gesture" John Ashbery's Poetry and Phenomenology Elisabeth W. Joyce examines John Ashbery's poetry through the lens of Maurice Merlea... Lees meer

Expanding Authorship

Peter Middleton

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• Expanding Authorship collects important essays by Peter Middleton that show the many ways in which, in a world of proliferating communications media, ... Lees meer

Evaluations of Us Poetry Since 1950, Volume 1

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• Over the last sixty years scholars and critics have focused on literary history and interpretation rather than literary value. When value is addressed... Lees meer

Presences

Robert Creeley

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• First published in 1976, this beautiful, interactive collaboration is a unique work of book art in which Marisol's monumental pop-art sculptures face ... Lees meer

Inciting Poetics

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• The essays in Inciting Poetics provide provocative answers to the book's opening question, "What are poetics now?" Authored by some of the most import... Lees meer

An Open Map

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• The correspondence of Robert Duncan and Charles Olson is one of the foundational literary exchanges of twentieth-century American poetry. The 130 lett... Lees meer

Curious Disciplines

Sarah Hayden

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• The transnational modernist Mina Loy (1882-1966) embodied the avant-garde in many literary and artistic media. This book positions her as a theorist o... Lees meer