Phenomenal Reading
Essays on Modern and Contemporary Poetics
Radical Affections
Essays on the Poetics of Outside
A study of six poets central to the New American poetry—Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Jack Spicer, Robin Blaser, and Susan Howe—with an eye both toward challenging the theoretical lenses through which they have been viewed and to opening up this counter tradition to contemporary practice
Radical Poetics and Secular Jewish Culture
This collection of essays is the first to address this often obscured dimension of modern and contemporary poetry: the secular Jewish dimension. Editors Daniel Morris and Stephen Paul Miller asked their contributors to address what constitutes radical poetry written by Jews defined as "secular," and whether or not there is a Jewish component or dimension to radical and modernist poetic practice in general. These poets and critics address these questions by exploring the legacy of those poets who preceded and influenced them--Stein, Zukofsky, Reznikoff, Oppen, and Ginsberg, among others.
Thinking Poetics
Essays on George Oppen
Digital Poetics
Hypertext, Visual-Kinetic Text and Writing in Programmable Media
Poetics & Polemics
1980-2005
Poetics & Polemics, 1980-2005 brings together in one volume a wide-ranging selection of essays and commentaries by one of the most significant poets, critics, and translators working with American and international poetry today.
The Alphabet
Artifice and Indeterminacy
An Anthology of New Poetics
Prehistoric Digital Poetry
An Archaeology of Forms, 1959-1995
The Point Is To Change It
Poetry and Criticism in the Continuing Present
In this book, Jerome McGann argues that contemporary language-oriented writing implies a marked change in the way we think about our poetic tradition on one hand and in the future of criticism on the other.
The Pink Guitar
Writing as Feminist Practice
The Pink Guitar is a landmark study of women's writing and poetics—and representations of women artists—in the 20th Century.
Blue Studios
Poetry and Its Cultural Work
Ashbery's Forms of Attention
Hart Crane
After His Lights
A critical reassessment of the life’s work of a major American poet.
Every Goodbye Ain't Gone
An Anthology of Innovative Poetry by African Americans
Showcases brilliant and experimental work in African American poetry.
A Poetics of Impasse in Modern and Contemporary American Poetry
Dissonance (if you are interested)
Dissonance (if you are interested) consists of Incisive essays on modern poetry and translation by a noted poet, translator, and critic.
This Is Called Moving
A Critical Poetics of Film
Distant Reading
Performance, Readership, and Consumption in Contemporary Poetry
Ultimately, Distant Reading treats poetry as a cultural practice that is always situated within specific sites of performance—recited on stage, displayed in magazines, laid out on a page, scrolled on the computer screen—rather than as a transcendent cloud of meaning tethered only to its words.
Integral Music
Languages Of African-American Innovation
An important study of African American contributions to contemporary American poetry.
Differentials
Poetry, Poetics, Pedagogy
A new collection of essays from a distinguished critic of contemporary poetry
Syncopations
The Stress of Innovation in Contemporary American Poetry
Emancipating Pragmatism
Emerson, Jazz, and Experimental Writing
The Obligation Toward the Difficult Whole
Postmodernist Long Poems
Another South
Experimental Writing in the South
Architectural Body
Led by Language
The Poetry and Poetics of Susan Howe
This first full-length study of Susan Howe illuminates the historical,
autobiographical, and theoretical influences that underlie the work of this enigmatic and important contemporary American poet.
We Who Love to Be Astonished
Experimental Women's Writing and Performance Poetics
The first critical volume devoted to the full range of women's postmodern works
