On the outskirts of form
Subtitle: practicing cultural poetics
By: Michael Davidson
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Middletown, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 329
ISBN-13: 9780819569578; 9780819569585; 9780819571373
Subjects: Poetics; Theory; History and criticism; Poetry; Modern Literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-313) and index.
Table of contents: title: A public language. On the outskirts of form : cosmopoetics in the shadow of NAFTA; title: The dream of a public language : modernity, textuality, and the citizen subject; title: Objectivist frames. Life by water : Lorine Niedecker and critical regionalism; title: "Closed in glass" : Oppen's class spectacles; title: Approaching the new American poetry. Archaeologist of morning : Charles Olson, Edward Dorn and historical method; title: "The repeated insistence" : Creeley's rage; title: A Cold War correspondence : gender trouble in the letters of Robert Duncan and Denise Levertov; title: Looking through lithium : James Schuyler as Jim the Jerk; title: Ekphrasis and the New York School; title: The pleasures of merely circulating : John Ashbery and the jargon of inauthenticity; title: "Struck against parenthesis" : Shelley and postmodern romanticisms; title: "Skewed by design" : from act to speech act in language writing; title: Vertigo : thinking toward action in the poetry of George Oppen; title: Afterword : impossible poetries.