Pitch of poetry / Charles Bernstein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bernstein, Charles, 1950- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetry--History and criticism.

Poetry.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xi, 349 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2016.

Summary:

Praised in recent years as a "calculating, improvisatory, essential poet" by Daisy Fried in the New York Times, Charles Bernstein is a leading voice in American literary theory. Pitch of Poetry is his irreverent guide to modernist and contemporary poetics. Subjects range across Holocaust representation, Occupy Wall Street, and the figurative nature of abstract art. Detailed overviews of formally inventive work include essays on-or "pitches" for-a set of key poets, from Gertrude Stein and Robert Creeley to John Ashbery, Barbara Guest, Larry Eigner, and Leslie Scalapino. Bernstein also reveals the formative ideas behind the magazine L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E. The final section, published here for the first time, is a sweeping work on the poetics of stigma, perversity, and disability that is rooted in the thinking of Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and William Blake. Pitch of Poetry makes an exhilarating case for what Bernstein calls echopoetics: a poetry of call and response, reason and imagination, disfiguration and refiguration. Book jacket.

Contents:

I L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E

In Unum Pluribus: Toward a More Perfect Invention 3

You Can't Evict an Idea: The Poetics of Occupy Wall Street (with Jane Malcolm) 13

Sounding the Word 29

This Picture Intentionally Left Blank 34

Disfiguring Abstraction 48

The Expanded Field of L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E 60

Coda: Enough! 78

II Pitch

Gertrude Stein: The Difference Is Spreading 83

Louis Zukofsky 100

Charles Olson: A Note on "The Kingfishers" 110

Paul Celan's Folds and Veils 113

Barbara Guest: Composing Herself 120

Jackson Mac Low: Poetry as Art 123

Robin Blaser's Holy Forest 128

Robert Creeley: Hero of the Local 131

Larry Eigner's Endless Song 137

John Ashbery: The Meandering Yangtze 147

Hannah Weiner's Medium 154

Haroldo de Campos Thou Art Translated (Knot) 157

Jerome Rothenberg: Double Preface 162

"And autumnstruck we would not hear the song": On Thomas McEvilley 168

Leslie Scalapino's Rhythmic Intensities 174

Maggie O'Sullivan: Colliderings 177

Johanna Drucker: Figuring the Word 182

III Echopoetics

Contemporary Literature (with Allison Cummings and Rocco Marinaccio) 187

Musica Falsa: On Shadowtime (with Eric Denut) 203

Foreign Literature Studies (with Nie Zhenzhao) 211

The Humanities at Work (with Yubraj Aryal) 222

Bomb (with Jay Sanders) 227

Chicago Weekly (with Daniel Benjamin) 238

FSG Poetry. All That Glitters Is Not Costume Jewelry (with Alan Gilbert) 248

Revista Canaria de Estudios Jngleses: Editing as Com(op)posing (with Manuel Brito) 251

Études anglaises: Poetry's Clubfoot-Process, Faktura, Intensification (with Penelope Galey-Sacks) 258

Evening Will Come: Off-Key (with Joshua Marie Wilkinson) 274

Wolf (with Stephen Ross) 276

IV Bent Studies

The Pataquerical Imagination: Midrashic Antinomianism and the Promise of Bent Studies (a fantasy in 140 fits) 293

Pataquericals & Poetics 345.

ISBN:

9780226331928

022633192X

9780226332086

022633208X

9780226332116

022633211X

OCLC:

913647100