The force of what's possible : writers on accessibility & the avant-garde / edited by Lily Hoang & Joshua Marie Wilkinson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hoang, Lily K., editor.

Wilkinson, Joshua Marie, 1977- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature, Experimental--History and criticism.

Literature, Experimental.

American literature--History and criticism.

American literature.

Physical Description:

377 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Nightboat Books, [2015]

Summary:

The Force of What's Possible features unique approaches to the concerns facing writers who compose works outside of the mainstream ken and beyond the expected terrain of experiment-courting what's unknown, uncertain, and even unrecognizable. Distinct in method and influence- and informed by discrepant genres and traditions-what they share is a love of the written word, the politics, processes, and beliefs that catalyze their work: a calling to the force of what literary language might do or become. Book jacket.

Contents:

"As In the Green Trees" / Dan Beachy-Quick Beachy-Quick, Dan 1

Freely Espousing: or Subject, to the Avant-Garde / Brian Blanchfield Blanchfield, Brian 4

A View from the Factory Floor / Jaswinder Bolina Bolina, Jaswinder 9

Towards an Auto-Destructive Poetics / Amaranth Borsuk Borsuk, Amaranth 13

Inner workings, In Meadows / Jenny Boully Boully, Jenny 18

Towards a Poetics of the Dow / Susan Briante Briante, Susan 21

Rendering the Invisible: A Translucent Imperative of Poetry / Laynie Browne Browne, Laynie 27

Mirror-Maze-Child-More / Blake Butler Butler, Blake 29

Slowness / Amina Cain Cain, Amina 30

Success in Circuit Lies (Redux) / Mary Caponegro Caponegro, Mary 32

The Body and the Avant-Garde / Julie Carr Carr, Julie 36

From The Excerpts: Poetics or or Politics / Ken Chen Chen, Ken 40

The Pleasure of Perversity / Jeremy M. Davies Davies, Jeremy M. 46

no te entiendo / La Tasha N. Nevada Diggs Diggs, La Tasha N. Nevada 50

as rigorous as a mathematical demonstration, as surprising as an ambush in the night, and as elevated as a star: Some Thoughts on Access, Difficulty, Limestone, and Empire / Amber DiPietra DiPietra, Amber, Jen Hofer Hofer, Jen, Denise Leto Leto, Denise 53

Kros Breathing / Rikki Ducornet Ducornet, Rikki 63

Take The Story / Nicolle Elizabeth Elizabeth, Nicolle 66

Genesis and Praxis / Clayton Eshleman Eshleman, Clayton 69

The Crazy Party Guy, or, A Disruption of Smooth Surfaces / Brian Evenson Evenson, Brian 74

It's Still Too Much: Conceptual Poetry, the Poetry Foundation, the Plague Ground, and the Anti-Kitsch Rhetoric of Contemporary Poetry Discussions / Johannes Göransson Göransson, Johannes 76

Five Allegories to Turn the Fingers of the Right Hand into a Fist / Noah Eli Gordon Gordon, Noah Eli 84

Iambic Passage: How Identity and Access Trouble American Imaginations / Rachel Eliza Griffiths Griffiths, Rachel Eliza 88

As Sound Creates Forms in Water / Duriel E. Harris Harris, Duriel E. 94

Avant-Garde Unconscious / Carla Harryman Harryman, Carla 99

The Poetics of Self-Education / Yona Harvey Harvey, Yona 102

Sun on the Avant-Garde / Lyn Hejinian Hejinian, Lyn 106

My Alternative Pop Song / Brent Hendricks Hendricks, Brent 115

That's the Way It's Gonna Be / Harmony Holiday Holiday, Harmony 117

Not Trash / B.J. Hollars Hollars, B.J. 122

The Question of the Avant-Garde / Paul Hoover Hoover, Paul 125

Always the Next Machine / Gregory Howard Howard, Gregory 134

Some Notes on the Tyrannical Prehension / Laird Hunt Hunt, Laird 138

I am My Own Status Quo / Alta Ifland Ifland, Alta 138

Notes on Trying to Say / Jac Jeme Jeme, Jac 141

In Defense of Non-Mandates / Stephen Graham Jones Jones, Stephen Graham 147

15 Non-Theses Towards an Un-Manifesto of Poetry Un-Randomly Culled from Recent Notebooks / Pierre Joris Joris, Pierre 150

Elemental Notes: / Bhanu Kapil Kapil, Bhanu 155

"I Can't See You Any More, Baby": Accessibility, the Avant-Garde, and My Flick Knife / Kevin Killian Killian, Kevin 157

Gestural Poetics / Amy King King, Amy 161

In Praise of The Various / Ann Lauterbach Lauterbach, Ann 163

Why I Write and What's at Stake / Hank Lazer Lazer, Hank 166

Actual, Real, and True / Sueyeun Juliette Lee Lee, Sueyeun Juliette 172

Passive Voice / Juliana Leslie Leslie, Juliana 175

Writing Properly? / Stacey Levine Levine, Stacey 178

Why We Do that Thing that We Do / Timothy Liu Liu, Timothy 179

The Good Thing about Today is I Slept through Most of It, or the Illusion of Urgency / Robert Lopez Lopez, Robert 183

Turnips / Sean Lovelace Lovelace, Sean 186

Nothing Is Wrong: Thirteen Thoughts on Poets and Poetry in the Year 2013 / Jill Magi Magi, Jill 189

On the Merits of Moderation / Ravi Mangla Mangla, Ravi 197

Poems of the Near Mind / Fand Matuk Matuk, Fand 198

Where This Thing Is Going / Mark McMorris McMorris, Mark 201

The Golden Age of Obliteration, or Staphylococcus aureus, or, How the Artist Must be Accessible to Art / Joyeile McSweeney McSweeney, Joyeile 206

Sub Traction / Miranda Mellis Mellis, Miranda 212

Avant Slash Pop / Megan Milks Milks, Megan 217

Self Again / Lydia Millet Millet, Lydia 221

Once Upon a Time (or, The Trouble with Avant-Garde Ought-Nots) / Kyle Minor Minor, Kyle 223

Another Project for the Heart / Ander Monson Monson, Ander 227

Accidental Cliques? (Or, Uhm, Which Status Quo I was Supposed to Defy Again?) / Laura Mullen Mullen, Laura 229

On Writing, Accessibility, and the Avant-Garde / Kristine Ong Muslim Muslim, Kristine Ong 234

Painted Clear, Painted Black / Eileen Myles Myles, Eileen 236

Our Wrong Parts / Alissa Nutting Nutting, Alissa 244

a flash poetics of illegibility / Lance Olscn Olscn, Lance 246

Oscar vs. George / Ted Pelton Pelton, Ted 251

from Unincorporated Poetic Territories / Craig Santos Perez Perez, Craig Santos 254

Refusal: The Confession of a Real Pervert / Vanessa Place Place, Vanessa 258

Navigating the Body, Revealing the Audience: On Sonic Integrity, Contrast, Movement, and Endurance / Khadijah Queen Queen, Khadijah 259

Strange & Enormous & Terrible & Absurd / Wendy Rawlings Rawlings, Wendy 263

Constellation and Dilemma / Elizabeth Robinson Robinson, Elizabeth 266

Living with Language: Our Body of Need / Joanna Ruocco Ruocco, Joanna 269

Walk Through / Aurelie Sheehan Sheehan, Aurelie 271

Negotiating against Myself / David Shields Shields, David 273

Empires of Consciousness / Anis Shivani Shivani, Anis 276

Sensation / Cedar Sigo Sigo, Cedar 279

What Pursuit / Eleni Sikelianos Sikelianos, Eleni 281

Drone Poetics / Carmen Giménez Smith Smith, Carmen Giménez 285

A Bunch of People Paper Thin Their Butts of Mud / Ken Sparling Sparling, Ken 289

On Prompt / Christopher Stackhouse Stackhouse, Christopher 292

On the Brink of a Response / Cole Swensen Swensen, Cole 296

My grandmother's name was Lorine / Brian Teare Teare, Brian 300

Imperatives / Roberto Tejada Tejada, Roberto 305

The Ethics of Perception: / Melanie Rae Thon Thon, Melanie Rae 309

Breaking What is Broken / Lynne Tillman Tillman, Lynne 313

Red, Left. Light Blue, Right. Or, So Many Ways to Say Yes. / TC Tolbert Tolbert, TC 316

I Only / Never I / Steve Tomasula Tomasula, Steve 320

We Epistolary Aliens / Jackie Wang Wang, Jackie 322

Fourteen Ways of Looking at Rat / Kellie Wells Wells, Kellie 327

Reginald and Me / Tyrone Williams Williams, Tyrone 330

Queer Black Avant-Garde Poetics: On Being Guilty of Excessive Darkness in the First Degree / L. Lamar Wilson Wilson, L. Lamar 333

Living Being: After the Avant-Garde / Ronaldo V. Wilson Wilson, Ronaldo V. 337

"You're Not Avant-Garde, Are You?" / Timothy Yu Yu, Timothy 340

Why Do you Write it All Weird? / Lidia Yuknavitch Yuknavitch, Lidia 344

Encounter / Andrew Zawacki Zawacki, Andrew 346.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1937658279

9781937658274

OCLC:

894276783

Publisher Number:

99962350688