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

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ISBN-10: 0819571210

ISBN-13: 9780819571212

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: $29.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Publication date: 8/15/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.27" long x 1.11" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English

How to Use This Guide
Introduction
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: Vastly 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 Lema�tre's Roman Hypergraphique
Toy Boats
Jameson's Perelman: Reification and the Material Signifier
Good and Bad/Good and Evil: Pound, C�line/and Fascism
Two Versions of Collateral Kit Robinson: Raising Collateral
Subtext in Collateral
Pattern-and the 'Simulacral'
An Example from the Literature
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
Acknowledgments and Permissions
Indexes
Contributor Index
Keyword Index
General Index