A guide to Poetics Journal : writing in the expanded field, 1982/1998 with the copublication of Poetics Journal digital archive / edited by Lyn Hejinian and Barrett Watten.

An anthology of key texts in the development of contemporary poetics. The editors of this text have sought to showcase a range of innovative poetics and to indicate the diversity of fields and activities with which they might be engaged.

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Other Authors: Hejinian, Lyn, Watten, Barrett
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Middletown, CT : Wesleyan University Press, [2013]
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Table of Contents:
  • Numbers 1-4. Close Reading : Leavings and Cleavings ; Writing and Method ; Forbidden Knowledge ; Language/Mind/Writing ; His Heart Is a Lute Held Up : Poe and Bataille ; The Rejection of Closure ; My Emily Dickinson : Part One ; Continuous Reframing ; Some Ways Philosophy Has Helped to Shape My Work ; Plotless Literature : Vasily Rozanov ; Migratory Meaning : The Parsimony Principle in the Poem ; The Politics of Style ; CONSTELLATION I : PRACTICES OF POETICS
  • Numbers 5-7. Ugly ; Total Equals What : Poetics and Praxis ; Mainstream Marginality ; "Hey, Man, My Wave!" : The Authority of Private Language ; Hypergraphy : A Note on Maurice Lemaître's Roman Hypergraphique ; Toy Boats ; Jameson's Perelman : Reification and the Material Signifier ; Good and Bad/Good and Evil : Pound, Céline, and Fascism ; Poets Theater : Two Versions of Collateral Kit Robinson : Raising Collateral ; Nick Robinson : Subtext in Collateral ; Leslie Scalapino, Pattern-and the 'Simulacral' ; Peter Seaton, An Example from the Literature ; Warren Sonbert, Narrative Concerns ; CONSTELLATION II : NEW METHODS AND TEXTS
  • Numbers 8-10. Seeking a Sentence ; Can't We Just Call It Sex? : In Memory of David Wojnarowicz ; Arkadii Dragomoshchenko, I(s) ; Cold Heaven : The Uses of Monumentality ; Miscegenated Texts and Media Cyborgs : Technologies of Body and Soul ; "A Form of Assumptions" ; Time and Materials : The Workplace, Dreams, and Writing ; The Death of Lady Day ; What/Person : From an Exchange ; The Marks Are Waiting ; Thinking You Know ; Memory and Immorality in Musical Composition ; CONSTELLATION III : THE EXPANDED FIELD.