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    Artifice and Indeterminacy
    An Anthology of New Poetics

    Christopher Beach (Edited by)

    9780817309541, The University of Alabama Press

    Paperback / softback, published 25 July 2007

    392 pages
    22.9 x 15.2 x 3 cm, 0.525 kg

    Artifice and Indeterminacy gathers the strongest and most representative writings of the past two decades and shows more clearly than ever before the depth and breadth of  contemporary American poetics. Collectively, these essays break with conventional interpretive frameworks and traditional generic boundaries of poetry to give fresh voice to the  poetics of our time.

    Neither dismissive of the aesthetic value(s) of poetry, nor reluctant to articulate the ways in which aesthetic evaluation is complicated by the mediating influences of history, culture, class, gender, race, and academic status, the writers presented in this anthology celebrate the artifice of the poetic text while also accepting as a given the indeterminacy of its inception and reception.
     
    Individual pieces range in style and approach from theoretical writings to discussions of individual poets such as Emily Dickinson, Louis Zukofsky, and Bob Kaufman. The authors consider such critical issues as gender and the possibilities of a feminist poetics, the textual politics of race and class, and the broader implications of an avant-garde practice.

    CONTENTS / CONTRIBUTORS

     

    Section 1: Form/Syntax/Speech

    Charles Bernstein

    Bob Perelman

    Barrett Watten

    Michael Davidson

    Marjorie Perloff

     

    Section 2: Pattern/Experience/Song

    David Antin

    Leslie Scalapino

    Lyn Hejinian

    John Taggart

     

    Section 3: Institutions and Ideology

    James Sherry

    Ron Silliman

    Steve McCaffery

    Hank Lazer

    Nathaniel Mackey

    Maria Damon

     

    Section 4: Poetics and Gender

    Rae Armantrout

    Rachel Blau DuPlessis

    Susan Howe
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