We who love to be astonished
Subtitle: experimental women's writing and performance poetics
By: edited by Laura Hinton and Cynthia Hogue.
Contributors: Hinton, Laura.; Hogue, Cynthia.
Series: Modern and contemporary poetics
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
Subjects: American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.; Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Experimental fiction, American -- History and criticism.; Experimental poetry, American -- History and criticism.; Postmodernism (Literature) -- United States.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "A poetics of emerging evidence" : experiment in Kathleen Fraser's poetry / by Eileen Gregory; title: Asterisk : separation at the threshold of meaning in the poetry of Rae Armantrout / by Ron Silliman; title: Alice Notley's experimental epic : "An ecstasy of finding another way of being" / by Susan McCabe; title: Intimacy and experiment in Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge's Empathy / by Charles Altieri; title: Towards a new politics of representation? Absence and desire in Denise Chavez's The last of the menu girls / by AnaLouise Keating; title: Beyond the frame of whiteness : Harryette Mullen's revisionary border work / by Cynthia Hogue; title: Untranslatable communities, productive translation, and public transport : Rosmarie Waldrop's A key into the language of America and Joy Harjo's The woman who fell from the sky / by Jonathan Monroe; title: "Nothing, for a woman, is worth trying" : a key into the rules of Rosmarie Waldrop's experimentalism; title: by Lynn Keller; title: Rules and restraints in women's experimental writing / by Carla Harryman; title: Im.age . . . dis.solve : the linguistic image in the critical lyric of Norma Cole and Ann Lauterbach / by Charles Borkhuis; title: Postmodern romance and the descriptive fetish of vision in Fanny Howe's The lives of a spirit and Lyn Hejinian's My life / by Laura Hinton; title: "Drawings with words" : Susan Howe's visual poetics / by Alan Golding; title: "Bodies written off" : economies of race and gender in the visual/verbal collaborative clash of Erica Hunt's and Alison Saar's Arcade / by Linda Kinnahan; title: "In another tongue" : body, image, text in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictee / by Elizabeth A. Frost; title: Painful bodies : Kathy Acker's last texts / by Nicole Cooley; title: "Eyes in all heads" : Anne Waldman's performance of bigendered imagination in Iovis 1 / by Heather Thomas; title: "Sonic revolutionaries" : voice and experiment in the spoken-word poetry of Tracie Morris / by Kathleen Crown; title: Capillary currents : Jayne Cortez / by Aldon Nielsen; title: Afterword : "Draft 48 : being astonished" / by Rachel Blau Duplessis.