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Guide to Poetics Journal Writing in the Expanded Field, 1982-1998

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ISBN-10: 0819571202

ISBN-13: 9780819571205

Edition: 2012

Authors: Lyn Hejinian, Barrett Watten

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Lyn Hejinian and Barrett Watten are internationally recognized poet/critics. Together they edited the highly influential Poetics Journal, whose ten issues, published between 1982 and 1998, contributed to the surge of interest in the practice of poetics. A Guide to Poetics Journal presents the major conversations and debates from the journal, and invites readers to expand on the critical and creative engagements they represent.In making their selections for the guide, the editors have sought to showcase a range of innovative poetics and to indicate the diversity of fields and activities with which they might be engaged. The introduction and headnotes by the editors provide historical and…    
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Book details

List price: $85.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Publication date: 8/15/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 416
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.25" long x 1.75" tall
Weight: 1.848
Language: English

Introduction
Preface: How to Use This Guide
Numbers 1-4
Close Readings: Leavings and Cleavings
Writing and Method
Forbidden Knowledge
Language/Mind/Writing
His Heart Is a Lute Held Up: Poe & Bataille
The Rejection of Closure
My Emily Dickinson
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
[Abstracts and links for 12 articles from nos. 1-4]
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 Lemaitre [4 illus]
Toy Boats
Jameson's Perelman: Reification and the Material Signifier
Good & Bad/Good & Evil: Pound, Celine, and Fascism
Two Versions of Collateral
Raising Collateral; Nick Robinson: Subtext in Collateral
Pattern--and the 'Simulacral'
An Example from the Literature
Narrative Concerns
Constellation II: New Methods and Texts
[Abstracts and links for 12 articles from numbers 5-7]
Numbers 8-10
Seeking a Sentence
Can't We Just Call It Sex?
I(s)
Cold Heaven: The Uses of Monumentality
Miscegenated Texts & Media Cyborgs: Technologies of Body and Soul
A Form of Assumptions
Time & Materials: The Workplace, Dreams, and Writing
The Death of Lady Day
The Marks Are Waiting
What/Person: From An Exchange
Leslie Scalapino and Ron Silliman
Thinking You Know
Memory and Immorality in Musical Composition
Constellation III: The Expanded Field
Acknowledgments and Permissions
List of Illustrations
Keywords: Guide
Index: Poetics Journal 1-10
Index: Guide
Poetics Journal Archive
Poetics Journal table of contents
Poetics Journal by individual author
Keywords: Guide and Archive
Articles from Poetics Journal 1-10
Articles from Poetics Journal 1-10
Selected Bibliographies
Acknowledgments and Permissions
Index: Archive