A Guide to Poetics Journal

by Hejinian, Lyn; Watten, Barrett

• ISBN13: 9780819571205
• ISBN10: 0819571202
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2013-08-15
• Publisher: Wesleyan Univ Pr

Summary

Lyn Hejinian and Barrett Watten are internationally recognized poet/critics. Together they edited the highly influential Poetics Journal, whose ten issues, published between 1982 and 1998, contributed to the surge of interest in the practice of poetics. A Guide to Poetics Journal presents the major conversations and debates from the journal, and invites readers to expand on the critical and creative engagements they represent. In making their selections for the guide, the editors have sought to showcase a range of innovative poetics and to indicate the diversity of fields and activities with which they might be engaged. The introduction and headnotes by the editors provide historical and thematic context for the articles. The Guide is intended to be of sustained creative and classroom use, while the companion Archive of all ten issues of Poetics Journal allows users to remix, remaster, and extend its practices and debates.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Preface: How to Use This Guide

Numbers 1-4

Close Readings: Leavings and Cleavings

Writing and Method

Forbidden Knowledge

Language/Mind/Writing

His Heart Is a Lute Held Up: Poe & Bataille

The Rejection of Closure

My Emily Dickinson

Continuous Reframing

Some Ways Philosophy Has Helped to Shape My Work

Plotless Literature: Vasily Rozanov

Migratory Meaning: The Parsimony Principle in the Poem

The Politics of Style

Constellation I: Practices of Poetics

[Abstracts and links for 12 articles from nos. 1-4]

Numbers 5-7

Ugly

Total Equals What: Poetics and Praxis

Mainstream Marginality

"Hey, Man, My Wave!": The Authority of Private Language

Hypergraphy: A Note on Maurice Lemaitre [4 illus]

Toy Boats

Jameson's Perelman: Reification and the Material Signifier

Good & Bad/Good & Evil: Pound, Celine, and Fascism

Two Versions of Collateral

Raising Collateral; Nick Robinson: Subtext in Collateral

Pattern--and the 'Simulacral'

An Example from the Literature

Narrative Concerns

Constellation II: New Methods and Texts

[Abstracts and links for 12 articles from numbers 5-7]

Numbers 8-10

Seeking a Sentence

Can't We Just Call It Sex?

I(s)

Cold Heaven: The Uses of Monumentality

Miscegenated Texts & Media Cyborgs: Technologies of Body and Soul

A Form of Assumptions

Time & Materials: The Workplace, Dreams, and Writing

The Death of Lady Day

The Marks Are Waiting

What/Person: From An Exchange

Leslie Scalapino and Ron Silliman

Thinking You Know

Memory and Immorality in Musical Composition

Constellation III: The Expanded Field

Acknowledgments and Permissions

List of Illustrations

Keywords: Guide

Index: Poetics Journal 1-10

Index: Guide

Poetics Journal Archive

Poetics Journal table of contents

Poetics Journal by individual author

Keywords: Guide and Archive

Articles from Poetics Journal 1-10

Articles from Poetics Journal 1-10

Selected Bibliographies

Acknowledgments and Permissions

Index: Archive

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