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Radical vernacular : Lorine Niedecker and the poetics of place / edited by Elizabeth Willis.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Contemporary North American poetry series.
- Contemporary North American poetry series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Niedecker, Lorine--Criticism and interpretation.
- Niedecker, Lorine.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (335 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In Radical Vernacular, Elizabeth Willis collects essays by leading poets and scholars that make a major contribution to the study of an important but long overlooked American poet. This pathbreaking volume contains essays by seventeen leading scholars: Rae Armantrout, Glenna Breslin, Michael Davidson, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Ruth Jennison, Peter Middleton, Jenny Penberthy, Mary Pinard, Patrick Pritchett, Peter Quartermain, Lisa Robertson, Elizabeth Robinson, Eleni Sikelianos, Jonathan Skinner, Anne Waldman, Eliot Weinberger, and Elizabeth Willis.
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; Natural and Political Histories; Life by Water: Lorine Niedecker and Critical Regionalism; Niedecker's Grammar of Flooding; Life Pops from a Music Box Shaped Like a Gun: Dismemberments and Mendingsin Niedecker's Figures; Particular Attention: Lorine Niedecker's Natural Histories; Writing Lake Superior; Sounding Process; In Phonographic Deep Song: Sounding Niedecker; How to Do Things with Nothing: Lorine Niedecker Sings the Blues; Darkinfested; Music Becomes Story: Lyric and Narrative Patterning in the Work of Lorine Niedecker
- Waking into Ideology: Lorine Niedecker's Experiments in the Syntax of ConsciousnessLorine Niedecker's "Paean to Place" and Its Reflective Fusions; Niedecker and Company; Niedecker/Reznikoff; Lorine Niedecker: The Poet in Her Homeplace; Who Is Sounding? Awakened View, Gaps, Silence, Cage, Niedecker; The Poetics of Affinity: Niedecker, Morris, and the Art of Work; The British Niedecker; Take Oil / and Hum: Niedecker / Bunting; Selected Bibliography; Contributors; Index; Contemporary North American Poetry Series
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-294) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781587297762
- 1587297760
- OCLC:
- 297117916
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