Simulcast

by Friedlander, Benjamin

• ISBN13: 9780817350284
• ISBN10: 0817350284
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-04-01
• Publisher: Univ of Alabama Pr

Summary

Simulcast offers long overdue, highly opinionated, and penetrating examinations of a flourishing movement in American letters by one of its most perceptive practitioners. The four "experiments" in literary criticism gathered in this volume vary in style and point of view. Taken together, they reassess the fundamental relationship between poetry and criticism. "The Anti-Hegemony Project" is a satire, employing the rhetoric of journalism and the colloquial exchanges of online fan groups to analyze one of the earliest appearances of a poetry community on the World Wide Web: the "Poetics List" maintained at the State University of New York, Buffalo. "Poe's Poetics and Selected Essays" is a collection of polemical essays on subjects ranging from modernism to language poetry. The third experiment, "The Literati of San Francisco," is a detailed portrait of the figures and ideas at the heart of an important literary scene a decade after language poetry's inception. The final essay, "A Short History of Language Poetry," provides a less polemical, more sober and even-han

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Introduction: Criticism as Applied Poetry	1	(68)
The Cultural Work of Plagiarism	5	(11)
Descriptions of an Imaginary Universe	16	(19)
From Satire to Criticism	35	(16)
Simulcast	51	(18)
The Anti-Hegemony Project	69	(50)
The AHP by "Edgar Allen Poe"	71	(11)
An AHP Dossier	82	(37)
Poe's Poetics and Selected Essays	119	(78)
Letter to B-	121	(7)
The Poetic Principle	128	(17)
Gertrude Stein: A Retrospective Criticism	145	(14)
Mr. Rasula's History	159	(11)
Blockage, Breakdown, Baffle	170	(15)
Mr. Daly's Polemic	185	(12)
The Literati of San Francisco	197	(72)
Bob Perelman	202	(3)
Andrew Schelling	205	(2)
Robert Grenier	207	(2)
Eileen Corder	209	(4)
Michael Palmer	213	(2)
Nathaniel Mackey	215	(2)
Beverly Dahlen	217	(6)
Ted Pearson	223	(2)
David Melnick	225	(1)
Stephen Rodefer	226	(5)
Robert Duncan	231	(6)
Carla Harryman	237	(1)
Ron Silliman	238	(2)
Benjamin Friedlander	240	(2)
Tom Mandel	242	(1)
Steve Benson	243	(4)
Lyn Hejinian	247	(6)
Barrett Watten	253	(2)
Norma Cole	255	(6)
Kathleen Fraser	261	(1)
Pat Reed	262	(4)
Kit Robinson	266	(3)
A Short History of Language Poetry	269	(40)
Clark Coolidge	273	(3)
Ron Silliman, Barrett Watten and Lyn Hejinian	276	(13)
Charles Bernstein	289	(4)
Critique of Language Poetry	293	(2)
Roundtable Discussion of Language Poetry	295	(14)
Notes	309	(32)
Index	341