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9780819567277

American Poets in the 21st Century

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    9780819567277

  • ISBN10:

    0819567272

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2007-07-09
  • Publisher: Wesleyan Univ Pr

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Summary

Understanding the current moment in poetry can be a difficult task, as the reader must sort among the avant-garde and mainstream, the traditional and the experimental. A welcome introduction to contemporary poetics, this collection represents one of the first attempts to chart the progress of a new generation of poets. Each chapter focuses on one poet, and includes a selection of poems, a brief statement of purpose by the poet, and a critical essay by a notable scholar. Working in forms ranging from the post-confessional lyric to documentary poetics, from the prose poem and the sonnet to sound poetry, these thirteen poets rank among the most notable and distinct of recent years. American Poets in the 21st Century will serve as a useful and enlightening guide for any reader interested in how new American poetry can look, feel, and sound. The enclosed CD includes each of the thirteen poets reading their work. Poets include: Joshua Clover, Stacy Doris, Peter Gizzi, Kenneth Goldsmith, Myung Mi Kim, Mark Levine, Tracie Morris, Mark Nowak, D.A. Powell, Juliana Spahr, Karen Volkman, Susan Wheeler, and Kevin Young.

Author Biography

CLAUDIA RANKINE is the Henry G. Lee Professor of English at Pomona College and author, most recently, of Don't Let Me Be Lonely (2004). LISA SEWELL is a professor of English at Villanova University and the author of Name Withheld (2006).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgmentsp. xi
Introductionp. 1
Poemsp. 16
Work Songp. 16
Sculpture Gardenp. 17
John Keatsp. 19
Light Yearsp. 21
Ontariop. 22
Documentp. 23
Thenp. 24
Willowp. 26
Poetics Statementp. 27
Recording Devices: Mark Levine's Poetics of Evidencep. 29
Poemsp. 43
I won't go in todayp. 43
There comes a time to rusticate the numbersp. 43
I never wish to sing again as I used top. 44
O verb, o voidp. 44
No noise subtracts itp. 45
It could be a bird that says summerp. 45
The first greeting on a bright siftp. 46
Brown is the flat gestation of a mazep. 46
What is this witness, the watching agesp. 47
Grey airs, grey stirsp. 48
Reticulation of a premisep. 48
Bitter seed-scarred semblance-psychep. 49
The thing you do you keep or claimp. 49
Lifting whither, cycle of the siftp. 50
One might start herep. 51
Poetics Statementp. 54
A Space for Desire and the Mutable Self: Karen Volkman's Experimentations with the Lyricp. 55
Poemsp. 71
[Chapt. ex ex ex eye vee: in which scott has a birthday]p. 71
[When you touch down upon this earth, little reindeers]p. 72
[My lover my phlebotomist. his elastic fingers encircle my arm]p. 72
[You'd want to go to the reunion: see]p. 73
[So the theatre dimmed and reclined. cramped balcony rubbed against my leg]p. 74
[Strange flower in my hands. porphyry shell. clipped wool]p. 76
[Listen mother, he punched the air: I am not your son dying]p. 77
[Darling can you kill me: with your mickeymouse pillows]p. 77
[When dementia begins: almost makes sense like hambuger translations]p. 78
[Autumn set us heavily to task: unrooted the dahlias]p. 78
[Between scott's asshole and his mouth I could not say which I preferred: perfect similes]p. 79
[Ode]p. 80
[Who won't praise green. each minute to caress each minute blade of spring. green slice us open]p. 80
Poetics Statement: The Flesh Failuresp. 81
Here Is the Door Marked heaven: D. A. Powellp. 83
Poemsp. 97
Beginning with a Phrase from Simone Weilp. 97
Revivalp. 98
To Be Written in No Other Countryp. 102
Plain Songp. 103
Chateau Ifp. 105
In Defense of Nothingp. 105
Untitled Amherst Specterp. 106
Last Century Thoughts in Snow Tonightp. 106
Poetics Statement: Extract from a Letter to Steve Farmerp. 107
Peter Gizzi's City: The Political Quotidianp. 108
Poemp. 124
Gentle Now, Don't Add to Heartachep. 124
Poetics Statementp. 131
All Together/Now: Writing the Space of Collectivities in the Poetry of Juliana Spahrp. 133
Poemsp. 151
Baader Meinhof Three-Person'd Godp. 152
At the Atelier Teleologyp. 153
Poem (We always send it to the wrong address)p. 156
Chreiap. 157
Whiteread Walkp. 158
Whiteread Walkp. 159
Ceriseriep. 159
Year Zerop. 161
Poetics Statement: Once Against (Into the Poetics of Superinformation)p. 163
The Pleasures of not Merely Circulating: Joshua Clover's Political Imaginationp. 164
Poemsp. 180
Defacementp. 180
Famous Negro Athletesp. 182
Fish Storyp. 184
Nocturnep. 185
Night Capp. 186
The Hideoutp. 188
Poetics Statementp. 190
Mixed-up Medium: Kevin Young's Turn-of-the-Century American Triptychp. 193
Poemsp. 210
A little
Untitled
Poetics Statement: Sound Making Notesp. 210
Improvisational Insurrection: The Sound Poetry of Tracie Morrisp. 215
Poemsp. 236
From Commonsp. 236
From "Lamenta"p. 236
From "Works"p. 245
Poetics Statement: Convolutions: the Precision, the Wildp. 251
Making Common the Commons: Myung Mi Kim's Ideal Subjectp. 252
Poemsp. 267
From Conferencep. 267
From Paramour: "A Month of Valentines"p. 270
From Knotp. 272
Poetics Statement: I Have to Check My e-mailp. 274
The Poetics of Radical Constraint and Unhooked Bedazzlement in the Writing of Stacy Dorisp. 278
Poemp. 290
The Debtor in the Convex Mirrorp. 290
Poetics Statementp. 303
Susan Wheeler's Open Source Poeticsp. 304
Poemsp. 320
From $00/Line/Steel/Trainp. 320
From Capitalizationp. 324
From Hoyt Lakes / Shut Downp. 329
Poetics Statement: Notes toward an Anti-capitalist Poetics IIp. 332
Mark Nowak: Radical Documentary Praxis [Redux]p. 336
Poemp. 353
"Page One" from The Dayp. 353
Poetics Statement: Being Boringp. 361
Affect and Autism: Kenneth Goldsmith's Reconstitution of Signal and Noisep. 367
Contributorsp. 383
Indexp. 389
Audio CD Track Listp. 402
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