Poetic obligation
Subtitle: ethics in experimental American poetry after 1945
By: G. Matthew Jenkins.
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Iowa City
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9781587296352
Subjects: American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Experimental poetry, American -- History and criticism; Ethics in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-258) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The double-double turn; title: pt. 1. Objectivist poethics; title: Saying obligations: George Oppen's Of being numerous; title: A phenomenology of judgment: Charles Reznikoff's Holocaust; title: pt. 2. Excess and eros. The ethics of excess: Edward Dorn's Gunslinger; title: The body ethical: Robert Duncan's Passages; title: pt. 3. An ethics of sexual alterity. The nearnes sof poetry: Susan Howe's The nonconformist's memorial; title: Permeable ethics: Lyn Hejinian's The cell; title: Conclusion: What difference does poetic obligation make?