Artifice and Indeterminacy: An Anthology of New Poetics
edited by Christopher Beach
University of Alabama Press, 2007 Cloth: 978-0-8173-0946-6 | Paper: 978-0-8173-0954-1 Library of Congress Classification PN1055.A76 1998 Dewey Decimal Classification 808.1
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK
Brings together the most important writings on contemporary poetics
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Christopher Beach is assistant professor of English at the University of California, Irvine.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CONTENTS
Preface
Section 1:
Form/ Syntax/ Speech
1.
Artifice of Absorption
Bernstein,
Charles
2.
Parataxis and Narrative: The New Sentence in Theory and Practice
Perelman,
Bob
3.
Total Syntax: The Work in the World
Watten,
Barrett
4.
“Skewed by Design”: From Act to Speech Act in Language Writing
Davidson,
Michael
5.
The Changing Face of Common Intercourse: Talk Poetry, Talk Show, and the Scene of Writing
Perloff,
Marjorie
Section 2:
Pattern/Experience/Song
6.
what it means to be avant-garde
Antin,
David
7.
Pattern—and the “Simulacral”
Scalapino,
Leslie
8.
Strangeness
Hejinian,
Lyn
9.
Come Shadow Come and Pick This Shadow Up
Taggart,
John
Section 3:
Institutions and Ideology
10.
The Boundaries of Poetry
Sherry,
James
11.
The Political Economy of Poetry
Silliman,
Ron
12.
Writing as a General Economy
McCaffery,
Steve
13.
The Politics of Form and Poetry's Other Subjects: Reading Contemporary American Poetry
Lazer,
Hank
14.
On Edge
Mackey,
Nathaniel
15.
“Unmeaning Jargon”/Uncanonized Beatitude: Bob Kaufman, Poet
Damon,
Maria
Section 4:
Poetics and Gender
16.
Feminist Poetics and the Meaning of Clarity
Armantrout,
Rae
17.
The Pink Guitar
DuPlessis,
Rachel Blau
18.
These Flames and Generosities of the Heart: Emily Dickinson and the Illogic of Sumptuary Values