On the outskirts of form : practicing cultural poetics / Michael Davidson ; designed by Katherine B. Kimball.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davidson, Michael, 1944- author.

Contributor:

Kimball, Katherine B., designer.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetics.

Poetry--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

Poetry.

Literature, Modern--20th century--History and criticism.

Literature, Modern.

Literature, Modern--21st century--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (599 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Middleton, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Essays on modern and contemporary poetry from a cultural studies perspective

Contents:

A public language. On the outskirts of form : cosmopoetics in the shadow of NAFTA

The dream of a public language : modernity, textuality, and the citizen subject

Objectivist frames. Life by water : Lorine Niedecker and critical regionalism

"Closed in glass" : Oppen's class spectacles

Approaching the new American poetry. Archaeologist of morning : Charles Olson, Edward Dorn and historical method

"The repeated insistence" : Creeley's rage

A Cold War correspondence : gender trouble in the letters of Robert Duncan and Denise Levertov

Looking through lithium : James Schuyler as Jim the Jerk

Ekphrasis and the New York School

The pleasures of merely circulating : John Ashbery and the jargon of inauthenticity

"Struck against parenthesis" : Shelley and postmodern romanticisms

"Skewed by design" : from act to speech act in language writing

Vertigo : thinking toward action in the poetry of George Oppen

Afterword : impossible poetries.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-283-30932-7

9786613309327

0-8195-7137-7

OCLC:

759868709