The darkness of the present : poetics, anachronism, and the anomaly /
McCaffery, Steve.
Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press,
c2012.
Cacophony, abstraction, and potentiality: the fate of the dada sound poem -- Corrosive poetics: the relief composition of Ronald Johnson's radios -- Interpretation and the limit text: an approach to Jackson Maclow's Words and ends from Ez -- Transcoherence and deletion: the mesostic writings of John Cage -- A chapter of accidents: disfiguration and the marbled page in Laurence Sterne's The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman -- From muse to mousepad: informatics and the avant-garde -- Parapoetics and the architectural leap -- "To lose one's way" (for snails and nomads): the radical labyrinths of constant and arakawa and gins -- Difficult harmony: the picturesque detail in Gilpin, price, and Clark Coolidge's Space -- The 'pataphysics of Auschwitz -- The instrumental nightingale: some counter-musical inflections in poetry from Gray to Celan.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-256) and index.
Poetics.