Translating the Unspeakable

Kathleen Fraser

• Paperback | Engels | Modern and Contemporary Poetics
• A prominent avant-garde poet charts both her personal artistic development and the difficulties faced by women writers pursuing innovative paths. An a... Lees meer

Interruptions

Gerald L Bruns

• Paperback | Engels | Modern and Contemporary Poetics
• A history of fragmentary--or interrupted--writing in avant-garde poetry and prose by a renowned literary critic. In Interruptions: The Fragmentary Aes... Lees meer

Blue Studios

Rachel Blau Duplessis

• Paperback | Engels | Modern and Contemporary Poetics
• 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

American Poetry as Transactional Art

Stephen Fredman

• Paperback | Engels | Modern and Contemporary Poetics
• 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

Led by Language

Rachel Back

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

A Long Essay on the Long Poem

Rachel Blau Duplessis

• Paperback | Engels | Modern and Contemporary Poetics
• A masterful meditation on our most mercurial and abiding of poetic forms--the long poem For decades, Rachel Blau DuPlessis has shown readers how genre... Lees meer

Simulcast

Benjamin Friedlander

• Paperback | Engels | Modern and Contemporary Poetics
• 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

Emancipating Pragmatism

Michael Christopher Magee

• Paperback | Engels | Modern and Contemporary Poetics
• A radical rereading of Emerson that posits African- American culture, literature, and jazz as the very continuation and embodiment of pragmatic though... Lees meer

Imperfect Fit

Allen Fisher

• Paperback | Engels | Modern and Contemporary Poetics
• Imperfect Fit: Aesthetic Function, Facture, and Perception in Art and Writing since 1950 is an expansive and incisive examination of the patterns of c... 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

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

Omnicompetent Modernists

Matthew Hofer

• Paperback | Engels | Modern and Contemporary Poetics
• 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

Another South

• Paperback | Engels | Modern and Contemporary Poetics
• Gathers the best work of flourishing but often-neglected avant-garde southern poets Another South is an anthology of poetry from contemporary southern... Lees meer

Extraordinary Measures

Lorenzo Thomas

• Paperback | Engels | Modern and Contemporary Poetics
• This broad overview by an established poet and cultural critic reveals the rich tapestry of African American poetry as it has emerged over the past ce... Lees meer

The Science Fiction of Poetics and the Avant-Garde Imagination

Michael Golston

• Paperback | Engels | Modern and Contemporary Poetics
• How the tropes of science fiction infuse and inform avant-garde poetics and many other kindred arts This insightful, playful monograph from Golston do... Lees meer

Architectural Body

Shusaku Arakawa, Madeline Gins

• Paperback | Engels | Modern and Contemporary Poetics
• 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

Every Goodbye Ain't Gone

• Paperback | Engels | Modern and Contemporary Poetics
• 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

Wreading

Jed Rasula

• Paperback | Engels | Modern and Contemporary Poetics
• A diverse collection of essays and interviews on reading, teaching, and writing poetry from a preeminent critic and scholar Jed Rasula is a distinguis... Lees meer

Hart Crane

Brian M Reed

• Paperback | Engels | Modern and Contemporary Poetics
• 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

• Paperback | Engels | Modern and Contemporary Poetics
• 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

Word Toys

Brian Kim Stefans

• Paperback | Engels | Modern and Contemporary Poetics
• An engaging and thought provoking volume that speculates on a range of textual works--poetic, novelistic, and programmed--as technical objects With th... Lees meer

Bowed Some, Chanted a Little

Philip Whalen

• Paperback | Engels | Modern and Contemporary Poetics
• 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

Distant Reading

Peter Middleton

• Paperback | Engels | Modern and Contemporary Poetics
• 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

• Paperback | Engels | Modern and Contemporary Poetics
• 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