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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.

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.

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.

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.