Title:
American poets in the 21st century : the new poetics
Publication Date:
2007
Publication Information:
Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, ©2007.
Physical Description:
xiii, 400 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm + 1 audio disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.).
ISBN:
9780819567277
9780819567284
Abstract:
Understanding the current moment in poetry can be a difficult task, as the reader must sort among the avant-garde and mainstream, the traditional and the experimental. A welcome introduction to contemporary poetics, this collection represents one of the first attempts to chart the progress of a new generation of poets. Each chapter focuses on one poet, and includes a selection of poems, a brief statement of purpose by the poet, and a critical essay by a notable scholar. Working in forms ranging from the post-confessional lyric to documentary poetics, from the prose poem and the sonnet to sound poetry, these thirteen poets rank among the most notable and distinct of recent years.
Contents:
/ Mark LevinePoems -- Work Song -- Sculpture Garden -- John Keats -- Light Years -- Ontario -- Document -- Then -- Willow -- Poetics Statement -- Recording Devices: Mark Levine's Poetics of Evidence / Sabrina Orah Mark -- / Karen VolkmanPoems -- I won't go in today -- There comes a time to rusticate the numbers -- I never wish to sing again as I used to -- O verb, o void -- No noise subtracts it -- It could be a bird that says summer -- The first greeting on a bright sift -- Brown is the flat gestation of a maze -- What is this witness, the watching ages -- Grey airs, grey stirs -- Reticulation of a premise -- Bitter seed-scarred semblance-psyche -- The thing you do you keep or claim -- Lifting whither, cycle of the sift -- One might start here -- Poetics Statement -- A Space for Desire and the Mutable Self: Karen Volkman's Experimentations with the Lyric / Paul Otremha -- / D.A. PowellPoems -- [Chapt. ex ex ex eye vee: in which scott has a birthday] -- [When you touch down upon this earth, little reindeers] -- [My lover my phlebotomist. his elastic fingers encircle my arm] -- [You'd want to go to the reunion: see] -- [So the theatre dimmed and reclined. cramped balcony rubbed against my leg] -- [Strange flower in my hands. porphyry shell. clipped wool] -- [Listen mother, he punched the air: I am not your son dying] -- [Darling can you kill me: with your mickeymouse pillows] -- [When dementia begins: almost makes sense like hambuger translations] -- [Autumn set us heavily to task: unrooted the dahlias] -- [Between scott's asshole and his mouth I could not say which I preferred: perfect similes] -- [Ode] -- [Who won't praise green. each minute to caress each minute blade of spring. green slice us open] -- Poetics Statement: The Flesh Failures -- Here Is the Door Marked heaven: D.A. Powell / Stephen Burt -- / Peter GizziPoems -- Beginning with a Phrase from Simone Weil -- Revival -- To Be Written in No Other Country -- Plain Song -- Chateau If -- In Defense of Nothing -- Untitled Amherst Specter -- Last Century Thoughts in Snow Tonight -- Poetics Statement: Extract from a Letter to Steve Farmer -- Peter Gizzi's City: The Political Quotidian / Cole Swensen -- / Juliana SpahrPoem -- Gentle Now, Don't Add to Heartache -- Poetics Statement -- All Together/Now: Writing the Space of Collectivities in the Poetry of Juliana Spahr / Kimberly Lamm -- / Joshua CloverPoems -- Baader Meinhof Three-Person'd God -- At the Atelier Teleology -- Poem (We always send it to the wrong address) -- Chreia -- Whiteread Walk -- Whiteread Walk -- Ceriserie -- Year Zero -- Poetics Statement: Once Against (Into the Poetics of Superinformation) -- The Pleasures of not Merely Circulating: Joshua Clover's Political Imagination / Charles Altieri -- / Kevin YoungPoems -- Defacement -- Famous Negro Athletes -- Fish Story -- Nocturne -- Night Cap -- The Hideout -- Poetics Statement -- Mixed-up Medium: Kevin Young's Turn-of-the-Century American Triptych / Rick Benjamin -- / Tracie MorrisPoems -- A little -- Untitled -- Poetics Statement: Sound Making Notes -- Improvisational Insurrection: The Sound Poetry of Tracie Morris / Christine Hume -- / Myung Mi KimPoems -- From Commons -- From "Lamenta" -- From "Works" -- Poetics Statement: Convolutions: the Precision, the Wild -- Making Common the Commons: Myung Mi Kim's Ideal Subject / Warren Liu -- / Stacy DorisPoems -- From Conference -- From Paramour: "A Month of Valentines" -- From Knot -- Poetics Statement: I Have to Check My e-mail -- The Poetics of Radical Constraint and Unhooked Bedazzlement in the Writing of Stacy Doris / Caroline Crumpacker -- / Susan WheelerPoem -- The Debtor in the Convex Mirror -- Poetics Statement -- Susan Wheeler's Open Source Poetics / Lynn Keller -- / Mark NowakPoems -- From $00/Line/Steel/Train -- From Capitalization -- From Hoyt Lakes / Shut Down -- Poetics Statement: Notes toward an Anti-capitalist Poetics II -- Mark Nowak: Radical Documentary Praxis [Redux] / David Ray Vance -- / Kenneth GoldsmithPoem -- "Page One" from The Day -- Poetics Statement: Being Boring -- Affect and Autism: Kenneth Goldsmith's Reconstitution of Signal and Noise / Raymond McDaniel -- Audio CD Track List.
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Language:
English
