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Containing 12 essays and an introduction; this work examines the work of experimental poets and the innovative forms they have fashioned to challenge commonplace assumptions about gender and cultural authority.

Collects Alan Golding'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.

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.

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.

Addressing subjects as wide-ranging as angelology, the court masque, pop art, caricature, the cult of the ruin, hip-hop, Spenser's Irish policy, and the aesthetics of silence, Brian McHale pulls varied threads together to identify a repertoire of postmodernist elements characteristic of the long poems he examines.

Political commentary is possible through ""variety"" theatre, this volume contends. Compiled from the April 2000 Theatre Symposium held on the campus of the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, this collection of essays presents a mix of theoretical and practical point from various scholars.

This volume presents cultural readings of the objectivist poets, a group characterized by a historical, realist, antimythological view. The essays analyze and evaluate objectivist politics, and focus on the ethical, spiritual, and religious issues raised by objectivist affiliations with Judaism.

Argues that contemporary language-oriented writing implies a marked change in the way we think about our poetic tradition on one hand and in the future of criticism on the other. This book focuses on Walter Benjamin and Gertrude Stein as important intellectual resources because both see the history of poetry as a crisis of the present.

A collection of case studies examining specific incidents of silence and the impasses it creates in the poetic and academic landscape. It looks at the issue of professionalism, in both poetic practice and the academy, which has become the caretaker of much of modern and contemporary poetry and their competing values.

A collection of previously unpublished essays devoted to the full range of women's postmodern experimental writing. Discussions include analyses of the work of Kathleen Fraser, Harryette Mullen and Kathy Acker, among others.

This collection of 18 essays by the poet Kathleen Fraser, combines autobiography and criticism to examine what it means for an artist to innovate instead of following an already travelled path. The essays also examine modernist women writers, their contemporary successors, and their visual poetics.

While reader-centred texts have been criticized as undemocratic and exclusionary, the author instead argues that they empower readers, granting them equal authority with the author. She shows that reading these texts is a communal activity, anti-hierarchical and resolutely democratic.

As a writer, director, producer, and cinematographer, Abigail Child has been recognized as a major and influential practitioner of experimental cinema since the early 1970s. In these essays, Child draws on her career as a practicing poet as well as a filmmaker to explore how these two language systems inform and cross-fertilize her work.

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.

Calligraphy Typewriters is the first and only single-volume collection of Larry Eigner's most significant poems, gathering in one place the most celebrated of the several thousand poems that constitute his remarkable life's work.

Celebrated by both the Black Mountain poets in the '50s and '60s and the Language poets in the '70s and '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.

A radical rereading of Emerson that posits African-American culture, literature and jazz as the very continuation and embodiment of pragmatic thought and democratic tradition. The book traces Emerson's legacy through the 19th and 20th centuries to discover how Emersonian thought continues to inform issues of race, aesthetics and poetic discourse.

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.

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.

This new edition of Contemporaries and Snobs, a landmark collection of essays by Laura Riding, offers a counter-history of high modernist poetics.

African American poetry exhibits an impressive range of style and substance, in all its forms. This history of the genre offers a critical reassessment of its development in the 20th century, within the contexts of modernism and the troubled racial history of the United States.

A work of American ethnography, a cultural collage of artifacts, moments, episodes, and voices - historical and private - that capture the dizzying evolution of America's social, cultural, and literary consciousness.

Aldon Nielsen's ""Black Chant"" examined modern and postmodern developments in the work of African-American poets since World War II and their contributions to African-American culture and American modernism. ""Integral Music"" extends the studies begun in ""Black Chant"" through the work of writers and poets in the decades following World War II.

Assesses John Ashbery's career as a poet in the context of changes in 20th-century aesthetics, the rise of the information age, and the proliferation of aural and visual stimuli. This book addresses Ashbery's many roles - as theorist, postmodern metaphysical, and enemy of poetic decorum; and his use of stream-of-consciousness as a poetic strategy.

This work not only introduces the reader to the contemporary state of electronic writing, but also outlines the historical and technical contexts out of which electronic poetry has emerged and demonstrates some of the possibilities of the new medium.

This study offers an overview of avant-garde American poetry of the latter 20th century - a flourishing movement in American letters. The four ""experiments"" in literary criticism vary in style and viewpoint. Taken together, they reassess the fundamental relationship between poetry and criticism.

Artist-architects Arakawa and Madeline Gins demonstrate the interconnectedness of innovative architectural design, the poetic process and philosophical enquiry. Their book promotes a deliberate use of architecture and design in dealing with the blight of the human condition.

In this study, poet and scholar Rachel Tzvia Back offers a close and detailed reading of Susan Howe's provocative and powerful poetry. Howe's work is dense, often difficult, but always distinctive, and Back's volume explains a number of features crucial to understanding her poems.

Features essays on modern poetry and translation. The author addresses considerations central to her life's work: typical genres and ways of countering the conventions of genre; how concrete poets have made syntax spatial rather than grammatical; and the move away from metaphor in poetry toward contiguity and metonymy.