Poetry on and Off the Page

by Perloff, Marjorie

• ISBN13: 9780810115613
• ISBN10: 0810115611
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-05-13
• Publisher: Northwestern Univ Pr

Summary

Literary/cultural criticism. Committed to the notion that, in John Ashbery's words, "You can't say it that way anymore", Poetry on & off the Page describes the formation and transformations of literary and artistic discourses, and traces these discourses as they have evolved in their dialogue with history, culture, and society. The volume is testimony to the important role that contemporary artistic practice will continue to play as we move into the twenty-first century.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Postmodernism / Fin de Siecle: Defining "Difference" in Late Twentieth-Century Poetics	p. 3
Tolerance and Taboo: Modernist Primitivisms and Postmodernist Pieties	p. 34
"Barbed-Wire Entanglements": The "New American Poetry," 1930-32	p. 51
"A Step Away from Them": Poetry 1956	p. 83
Lucent and Inescapable Rhythms: Metrical "Choice" and Historical Formation	p. 116
After Free Verse: The New Nonlinear Poetries	p. 141
What We Don't Talk about When We Talk about Poetry: Some Aporias of Literary Journalism	p. 168
English as a "Second" Language: Mina Loy's "Anglo-Mongrels and the Rose"	p. 193
Poetry in Time of War: The Duncan-Levertov Controversy	p. 208
How Russian Is It: Lyn Hejinian's Oxota	p. 222
What Really Happened: Roland Barthes's Winter Garden/Christian Boltanski's Archives of the Dead	p. 243
"Inner Tension / In Attention": Steve McCaffery's Book Art	p. 264
The Music of Verbal Space: John Cage's "What You Say ..."	p. 290
The Morphology of the Amorphous: Bill Viola's Videoscapes	p. 309
Notes	p. 323
Illustration Sources	p. 357
Poetry Sources	p. 363
Index	p. 365
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