Essays and Interviews on Contemporary American Poets, Poetry, and Pedagogy : A Thirty-Year Creative Reading Workshop.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morris, Daniel.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry.

Criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (343 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

La Vergne : Anthem Press, 2024.

Summary:

Merging autobiography and literary criticism, Daniel Morris illustrates in sixteen essays how he learned to attend to avant-garde contemporary American poets whose aesthetic contributions were not part of his education.

Contents:

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Acknowledgments

Introduction: To Teach Is to Learn Twice (or, Putting the Pieces of My Life’s Work Together)

SECTION 1: Rereading the Poets, Poetry, and Poetics of My Decade in the Boston Area (1983–1993)

CHAPTER 1 Reading Spivack/Reading Myself: A Memoir of Reading a Memoir, Boston 1959–1977; Boston 1983–1993

CHAPTER 2 Allen Grossman’s Radical Simplicity

CHAPTER 3 In Praise of Secular Jewish American Lyric Commentary: Why Bob Dylan and Louise Glück Are Twenty-First-Century Nobel Laureates

CHAPTER 4 Preserving William Carlos Williams: Populism, Curation, and Late Avant-Gardism in Kenneth Goldsmith’s Duchamp Is My Lawyer and Thomas Lux’s “Refrigerator, 1957”

SECTION 2: Midwestern Avant-Gardism: Essays and Interviews on Experimental Poetics

CHAPTER 5 No Sympathy for the Devil of History: On Norman Finkelstein’s “Oppen at Altamont”

CHAPTER 6 History and/as Language Poetry: Remembering Literary Community through Negation in Barrett Watten’s Questions of Poetics

CHAPTER 7 Tyrone Calling: Torqued language poetry and radical mimesis in c.c.

CHAPTER 8 An Interview with Patrick Durgin about Hannah Weiner

CHAPTER 9 Tech Support Says “Dead Don Walking”: Tradition, the Internet, and Individual Talent in the Poetry of Daniel Y. Harris

CHAPTER 10 Interview with Adeena Karasick on Checking In

SECTION 3: To Teach is to Learn Twice: Poetry, Poetics, and Pedagogy

CHAPTER 11 Convergence Cultures: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and the Graphic Novel

CHAPTER 12 Resisting Billy Collins: On Teaching “Introduction to Poetry” in Introduction to Poetry

CHAPTER 13 Amiri Baraka’s Aesthetic Radicalism: Dutchman’s Modernist Roots

CHAPTER 14 Two Interviews with Thomas Fink

SECTION 4: In My End Is My Beginning: Reviewing Peter Dale Scott and Philip Guston

CHAPTER 15 Reviewing Peter Dale Scott/Reviewing Myself

CHAPTER 16 In My End Is My Beginning: Seeing Double at Philip Guston Now in the Summer of 2023

Conclusion: Goodbye, Heavilon Hall

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ISBN:

9781839992261

1839992263

9781839992254

1839992255

OCLC:

1451798560