Poetic obligation : ethics in experimental American poetry after 1945 /
Jenkins, Grant Matthew.
Iowa City : University of Iowa Press,
c2008.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-258) and index.
Introduction: The double-double turn -- pt. 1. Objectivist poethics -- Saying obligations: George Oppen's Of being numerous -- A phenomenology of judgment: Charles Reznikoff's Holocaust -- pt. 2. Excess and eros. The ethics of excess: Edward Dorn's Gunslinger -- The body ethical: Robert Duncan's Passages -- pt. 3. An ethics of sexual alterity. The nearness of poetry: Susan Howe's The nonconformist's memorial -- Permeable ethics: Lyn Hejinian's The cell -- Conclusion: What difference does poetic obligation make?
American poetry
Experimental poetry, American
Ethics in literature.