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The skin of meaning : collected literary essays and talks / Aaron Shurin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shurin, Aaron, 1947-
- Series:
- Poets on poetry
- Standardized Title:
- Essays. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poetics.
- Literature--Philosophy.
- Literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (139 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2016.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A volume in the Poets on Poetry series, which collects critical works by contemporary poets, gathering together the articles, interviews, and book reviews by which they have articulated the poetics of a new generation.In The Skin of Meaning , Aaron Shurin has collected thirty years' worth of his provocative essays.
- Contents:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; I.; Like a Book; Narrativity; A Thing unto Myself: The unRomantic Self and Gender in the Third Person; The Complexities of Measure; The Irruptive Text; Noumenous Men: On David Melnick's Men in Aida; Involuntary Lyrics: A Foot Note; Prosody Now; Note to a Student; II.; Active Form: Toward a Gay/Lesbian Poetics; Writing into the Twenty-First Century; Queerly: AIDS and the Queer Imagination; Lo How I Vanysshe: Afterword to Codex; Binding Unbound: An Introduction to Unbound: A Book of AIDS; From Unbound: A Book of AIDS
- PrefaceFull Circle: Postscript to "City of Men"; Notes from Under; Further Under; Orphée: The Kiss of Death; A Lull in the Void: Postscript to "Turn Around"; My Memorial; Some Haunting; Inscribing AIDS: A Reflexive Poetics; Shifting Paradise; July; Generation; III.; After Genet: Jean Genet 1910-1986; Smoke; Synching in Tongues; At the Pulling of Invisible Strings: On John Wieners's "A Poem for Trapped Things"; The Gaze of Julie; Real Questions: On Robert Glück's Elements of a Coffee Service; Reclaiming Eden: On Robert Duncan's Faust Foutu; A Restoration: On Beverly Dahlen's The Egyptian Poems
- Reading/Writing: An Introduction to DerivationsAmong way: On Leslie Scalapino's way; The People's P***k: A Dialectical Tale; IV.; Inhabiting Both Sides: Aaron Shurin's Correspondences
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on information from the publisher.
- ISBN:
- 9780472121564
- 0472121561
- OCLC:
- 940500951
- Publisher Number:
- 10.3998/mpub.8774906
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