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American Poetry As Transactional Art

by Stephen Fredman

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 Explores a salient quality of much avant-garde American poetry that has so far lacked sustained treatment: namely, its role as a transactional art. Specifically Fredman describes this role as the ways it consistently engages in conversation, talk, correspondence, going beyond the scope of its own subjects and forms.
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Imperfect Fit - Aesthetic Function, Facture, And Perception In Art And Writing Since 1950

by Allen Fisher

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 Offers an expansive and incisive examination of the patterns of connectedness in contemporary art and poetry. In Imperfect Fit, Allen Fisher focuses on the role of fracturing, ruptures, and breakages in many traditional ties between art and poetry, as well as the resulting use of collage and assemblage by practitioners of those arts.
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Active Romanticism - The Radical Impulse In Nineteenth-Century And Contemporary Poetic Practice

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 "Active Romanticism" is a collection of essays highlighting the pervasive, yet often unacknowledged, role of Romantic poetry and poetics on modern and contemporary innovative poetry.
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Rewriting The Word "God" - In The Arc Of Converging Lines Between Innovative Theory, Theology, And Poetry

by Romana Huk

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 Elucidates the substantive connections between innovative poetry of the last century and contemporary theology and philosophy.
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The Science Fiction Of Poetics And The Avant-Garde Imagination

by Michael Golston

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 An insightful monograph that does exactly what it advertises: modelling poetics based on how poetry (and some parallel artistic endeavours) has filtered through a century-plus of science fiction. This is not a book about science fiction in and of itself, but a book about the resonances of science-fiction tropes and ideas in poetic language.
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Sustaining Air - The Life Of Larry Eigner

by Jennifer Bartlett

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 The poet Larry Eigner (1927-1996) was a key figure in New American poetry, which grew out of the Black Mountain School and San Francisco Renaissance, and a major influence on the Language poets. Bartlettâ€™s biography covers every significant phase of Eignerâ€™s life, providing a deeply insightful account of an utterly distinctive voice.
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A Long Essay On The Long Poem - Modern And Contemporary Poetics And Practices

by Rachel Blau Duplessis

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 Long poems, Rachel Blau DuPlessis notes, are elusive, particularly in the slippery forms that have emerged in the postmodern mode. She cites both Nathaniel Mackey and Anne Waldman in thinking of the poem as a â€˜boxâ€™, both in the sense of a vessel that contains and as a machine that processes, an instrument on which language is played.
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Writing Into The Future - New American Poetries From "The Dial" To The Digital

by Alan Golding

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 Collects Alan Goldingâ€™s essays on the futures (past and present) of poetry and poetics. Throughout the 13 essays gathered in this collection, Golding skillfully joins literary critique with a concern for history and a sociological inquiry into the creation of poetry.
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Wreading - A Poetics Of Awareness, Or How Do We Know What We Know?

by Jed Rasula

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 A diverse collection of essays and interviews on reading, teaching, and writing poetry from a preeminent critic and scholar.
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Orphic Bend - Music And Innovative Poetics

by Robert L. Zamsky

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 Explores the impact of music on recent pioneering literary practices in the United States. Adopting the myth of Orpheus as its framework, Robert Zamsky argues that works by Charles Bernstein, Robert Creeley, John Taggart, Tracie Morris, and Nathaniel Mackey restage ancient debates over the relationship between poetry and music.
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Bowed Some, Chanted A Little - Philip Whalen'S Zen Journals And The San Francisco Renaissance

by Philip Whalen

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 Presents 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 Buddhist priest.
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Letters To Jargon - The Correspondence Between Larry Eigner And Jonathan Williams

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 Celebrated by both the Black Mountain poets in the â€˜50s and â€˜60s and the Language poets in the â€˜70s and â€˜80s, Larry Eigner's poems occupy an important place in American poetry and poetics. This book gathers some of the most intimate, personal writing on life and the art of poetry by this crucial figure in late twentieth-century American letters.
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Interruptions - The Fragmentary Aesthetic In Modern Literature

by Gerald L. Bruns

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 Explores the effects of parataxis, or fragmentary writing as a device in modern literature. Gerald L. Bruns focuses on texts that refuse to follow the traditional logic of sequential narrative. He explores numerous examples of self-interrupting composition, starting with Friedrich Schlegel's inaugural theory and practice of the fragment as an assertion of the autonomy of words.
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Finding The Weight Of Things - Larry Eigner'S Ecrippoetics

by George Hart

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 Offers the first full-length study of Larry Eignerâ€™s poetry, covering his entire career from the beginning of his mature work in the 1950s to his last poems of the 1990s. George Hart charts where Eignerâ€™s two central interests intersect, and how their interaction fueled his work as a poet-critic.
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Artifice And Indeterminacy - An Anthology Of New Poetics

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 This collection brings together the most important writings on contemporary poetics by poets and critics who have shaped and defined the contemporary literary avant-garde.
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Word Toys - Poetry And Technics

by Brian Kim Stefans

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 With the ascent of digital culture, new forms of literature and literary production are thriving while traditional genres and media have been transformed. Word Toysis a thought-provoking volume that speculates on a range of poetic, novelistic, and programmed works that lie beyond the language of the literary and views them instead as technical objects.
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Modernism The Morning After

by Bob Perelman

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 Scrutinizes a number of long-held modernist dogmas in order to articulate a more capacious model for thinking about modernism, past, present, and future. Modernism the Morning After is a superb, lively, engaging series of essays and talks, dating from 1995 to 2016, by the eminent scholar, critic, and poet Bob Perelman.
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Calligraphy Typewriters - The Selected Poems Of Larry Eigner

by Larry Eigner

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 Calligraphy Typewriters is the first and only single-volume collection of Larry Eignerâ€™s most significant poems, gathering in one place the most celebrated of the several thousand poems that constitute his remarkable lifeâ€™s work.
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Archaeopoetics - Word, Image, History

by Mandy Bloomfield

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 Explores â€œarchaeological poetryâ€, ground-breaking and experimental writing by innovative poets whose work opens up broad new avenues by which contemporary readers may approach the past, illuminating the dense web of interconnections often lost in traditional historiography.
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The Transmutation Of Love And Avant-Garde Poetics

by Jeanne Heuving

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 Offers a probing examination of how the writing of sexual love undergoes a radical revision by avant-garde poets in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Jeanne Heuving claims that a key achievement of poetry by Ezra Pound, H.D., Robert Duncan, and others lies significantly in their engagement with the synergistic relations between being in love and writing love.
Experience - Thinking, Writing, Language, And Religion

by Norman Fischer

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 Norman Fischer s "Experience" is the fruit of forty years of thinking on experimental writing and its practice, both as an investigation of reality and as a religious endeavor, by a major figure in contemporary Zen Buddhist practice and theology."
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The Astonishment Tapes - Talks On Poetry And Autobiography With Robin Blaser And Friends

by Robin Blaser

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 This is the edited transcript of revealing autobiographical audiotapes recorded by the groundbreaking poet Robin Blaser, a founding member of the Berkeley contingent of the San Francisco Renaissance in New American Poetry. In twenty autobiographical audiotapes, Blaser talks about his childhood in Idaho, his time in Berkeley, and his participation in the making of a new kind of poetry.
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Ecology Of Modernism - American Environments And Avant-Garde Poetics

by Joshua Schuster

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What I Say - Innovative Poetry By Black Writers In America

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 What I Say is the second book in a landmark two-volume anthology that explodes narrow definitions of African American poetry by examining experimental poems often excluded from previous scholarship. The first volume, Every Goodbye Ain't Gone, covers the period from the end of World War II to the mid-1970s. In What I Say, editors Aldon Lynn Nielsen and Lauri Ramey have assembled a comprehensive and dynamic collection that brings this pivotal work up to the present day.
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