Forest on Many Stems: Essays on The Poet's Novel

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Browne, Laynie

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hybridization in literature.

Experimental fiction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Summary:

A Forest on Many Stems: Essays on the Poets Novel provides a unique entrance to the rare prose of many remarkable modern and contemporary poets including Etel Adnan, Renee Gladman, Langston Hughes, Kevin Killian, Alice Notley, Fernando Pessoa, Rainer Maria Rilke, Leslie Scalapino, Jack Spicer, and Jean Toomer, whose approaches to the novel defy conventions of plot, character, setting, and action.Contributors: Brian Blanchfield, Anne Boyer, John Keene, Mnica de la Torre, Cedar Sigo, and C. D. Wright bring a variety of insights, approaches, and writing styles to the subject with creative and often surprisingresults.Kazim Ali on Fanny HoweDan Beachy-Quick on W.G. SebaldEdmund Berrigan on Ted BerriganBrian Blanchfield on Aaron KuninRachel Blau DuPlessis on Gertrude SteinJulia Bloch on Gwendolyn BrooksAnne Boyer on Elizabeth Barrett BrowningTraci Brimhall on Hilda HilstVincent Broqua on Stacy DorisBrandon Brown on Kevin KillianLee Ann Brown on Carla HarrymanAngela Carr on Nicole BrossardJulie Carr on Lyn HejinianNorma Cole on Emmanuel HocquardBrent Cunningham on Laura MoriartyMnica de la Torre on Martn AdnMarcella Durand on Robert CreeleyPatrick Durgin on Tan Lin & Pamela LuNorman Fischer on Phillip WhalenC.S. Giscombe on Audre LordeJudith Goldman on Leslie ScalapinoCarla Harryman on Gail ScottJeanne Heuving on Theresa Hak Kyung ChaLaura Hinton on Alice NotleyDaniel Katz on Jack SpicerJohn Keene on Fernando PessoaKarla Kelsey on Barbara GuestAaron Kunin on Lewis CarrollSonnet LAbb on M. NourbeSe PhilipAbigail Lang on Jacques RoubaudKimberly Lyons on Mina Loy W. Jason Miller on Langston HughesMette Moestrup on Ingeborg Bachmann Laura Moriarty on Keith WaldropLaura Mullen on Bhanu Kapil Denise Newman on Inger Christensen Aldon Lynn Nielsen on Amiri BarakaGeoffrey G. OBrien on John Ashbery & James SchuylerJena Osman on Thalia FieldJulie Patton on Jean Toomer Elizabeth Robinson on Rosmarie Waldrop Jennifer Scappettone on H.D. Susan Scarlata on Forrest Gander Brandon Shimoda on Etel Adnan Cedar Sigo on Eileen Myles Sasha Steensen on Anne Carson Donna Stonecipher on Peter Waterhouse Brian Teare on Rainer Maria Rilke Tyrone Williams on Nathaniel MackeyC.D. Wright on Michael OndaatjeLynn Xu on Ben LernerRachel Zolf on Juliana Spahr

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Alphabetical Contents

Introduction—The Poet’s Novel: A Form of Refusal

I. Verse Novel

“ You Cannot Count That You Should Weep For This Account” Aurora Leigh and the Problem of Math

Cane in the Classroom: Jean Toomer’s Classic

The Monster in the Rotunda: Anne Carson’s Autobiography of Red

Muse X: Lyn Hejinian’s Oxota: A Short Russian Novel

Down in the Dump: The Abject in Alice Notley’s Culture of One

II. Genre Mash-Ups

The Cornucopia is Mapped with a Slipping Venn-Diagram and a Möbius Strip: William Carlos Williams and his The Great American Novel

Friendship as Method in Ashbery & Schuyler’s A Nest of Ninnies

A Greater Greatness: Max Brand’s Twenty Notches becomes Ted Berrigan’s Clear the Range

Lying in Wait: On Roberto Bolaño’s Antwerp as a Poet’s Novel

Obituary of the Many: Gail Scott

Kevin Killian’s Epic Poem of Happiness

Dark Light: Paradox & Subversion in Laura Moriarty’s Ultraviloeta

A Ghostlike Interference: Jack Spicer’s Detective Novel

III. Interior Lyric / Displacement / Cartographic Time

Hilda Hilst’s The Obscene Madame D: A Derelict Reader’s Guide

Narrating the Financialized Landscape: The Novels of Taylor Brady

Structure as Philosophy in Inger Christensen’s Azorno

The Point of Robert Creeley’s The Island

Attention and Attunement in Forrest Gander’s As A Friend

Out of Marsh and Bog:“H.D., Imagiste” and the Poeisis of HERmione Precisely

Message in a Bottle: A Brief Introduction to Radical Love: 5 Novels by Fanny Howe Generated by AI.

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ISBN:

9781643621258

1643621254

OCLC:

1504498689