Stubborn poetries : poetic facticity and the avant-garde / Peter Quartermain.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Quartermain, Peter.

Series:

Modern & Contemporary Poetics

Modern and contemporary poetics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Experimental poetry--History and criticism.

Experimental poetry.

Avant-garde (Aesthetics).

Poetics--Psychological aspects.

Poetics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (337 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Stubborn Poetries is a study of poets whose work, because of its difficulty, apparent obduracy, or simple resistance to conventional explication, remains more-or-less firmly outside the canon. The focus of the essays in Stubborn Poetries by Peter Quartermain is on nonmainstream poets--often unknown, unstudied, and neglected writers whose work bucks preconceived notions of what constitutes the avant-garde. "Canonical Strategies and the Question of Authority: T.S. Eliot and William Carlos Williams" opens the collection and sounds a central theme: Quarterm

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction: Reading the Difficult; 2. Canonical Strategies and the Question of Authority: Eliot and Williams; 3. Basil Bunting: Poet of the North; 4. Parataxis in Basil Bunting and Louis Zukofsky; 5. Writing and Authority in Zukofsky's: Thanks to the Dictionary; 6. Thinking with the Poem: Louis Zukofsky; 7. Reading Niedecker; 8. "Take Oil / and Hum" : Niedecker and Bunting; 9. The Mind as Frying Pan: Robin Blaser's Humor; 10. "Writing on Air for Dear Life" : Richard Caddel; 11. "The Tattle of Tongueplay " : Mina Loy's 'Love Songs'

12. "Conversation with One's Peers" : George Oppen and Some Women Writers13. Momently: The Politics of the Poem, a Note on Robert Creeley; 14. Syllable as Music: Lyn Hejinian's 'Writing Is an Aid to Memory'; 15. McCaffery's Diptych: The Black Debt; 16. "Getting Ready to Have Been Frightened " : How I Read Bruce Andrews; 17. Paradise as Praxis: Bruce Andrews's 'Lip Service'; 18. Undoing the Book; 19. Poetic Fact; 20. Sound Reading; 21. Paradise of Letters; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8173-8671-8

OCLC:

852898019