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Rewriting the Word "God"

In the Arc of Converging Lines between Innovative Theory, Theology, and Poetry

University of Alabama Press

Innovative poetry, philosophy, theology and new sciences converge in the project of rewriting the word “God”

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The Science Fiction of Poetics and the Avant-Garde Imagination

University of Alabama Press

How the tropes of science fiction infuse and inform avant-garde poetics and many other kindred arts



 

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Bowed Some, Chanted a Little

Philip Whalen's Zen Journals and the San Francisco Renaissance

University of Alabama Press

The literary journals of a key figure in both the Beat and San Francisco Renaissance movements of the New American Poetry, and an ordained Zen Buddhist priest

 

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Sustaining Air

The Life of Larry Eigner

University of Alabama Press

The biography of a poet seminal to postwar American poetry

 

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A Long Essay on the Long Poem

Modern and Contemporary Poetics and Practices

University of Alabama Press

A masterful meditation on our most mercurial and abiding of poetic forms—the long poem

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Writing into the Future

New American Poetries from "The Dial" to the Digital

University of Alabama Press

A career-spanning collection of essays from a leading scholar of avant-garde poetry
 

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Wreading

A Poetics of Awareness, or How Do We Know What We Know?

University of Alabama Press

A diverse collection of essays and interviews on reading, teaching, and writing poetry from a preeminent critic and scholar
 

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Finding the Weight of Things

Larry Eigner's Ecrippoetics

University of Alabama Press

An innovative study of how a prescient poet imagined ecology and embodiment

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Orphic Bend

Music and Innovative Poetics

University of Alabama Press

Restages fundamental debates about the relationship between poetry and music

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American Poetry as Transactional Art

University of Alabama Press

Explores the ways American poetry engages with visual art, music, fiction, spirituality, and performance art

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Letters to Jargon

The Correspondence between Larry Eigner and Jonathan Williams

Edited by Andrew Rippeon
University of Alabama Press

Gathers some of the most intimate, personal writing on life and the art of poetry by a crucial figure in late twentieth-century American letters

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Interruptions

The Fragmentary Aesthetic in Modern Literature

University of Alabama Press

A history of fragmentary—or interrupted—writing in avant-garde poetry and prose by a renowned literary critic.

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Word Toys

Poetry and Technics

University of Alabama Press

An engaging and thought-provoking volume that speculates on a range of textual works—poetic, novelistic, and programmed—as technical objects

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Modernism the Morning After

University of Alabama Press

Articulates a more capacious model for thinking about modernism, past, present, and future

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Calligraphy Typewriters

The Selected Poems of Larry Eigner

University of Alabama Press

The first and only single-volume collection of Larry Eigner’s most significant poems, gathering in one place the most celebrated of the several thousand poems that constitute his remarkable life’s work

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Imperfect Fit

Aesthetic Function, Facture, and Perception in Art and Writing since 1950

By Allen Fisher; Foreword by Pierre Joris
University of Alabama Press

Imperfect Fit is a dynamic study of the relationships between modern art and avant-garde poetry from the 1950s to the present that provides fascinating glimpses into both Allen Fisher’s remarkable work as a poet, painter, and critic, as well as the state of avant-garde aesthetics as a whole.

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The Transmutation of Love and Avant-Garde Poetics

University of Alabama Press

The Transmutation of Love and Avant-Garde Poetics is a probing examination of how the writing of sexual love undergoes a radical revision by avant-garde poets in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Today, the exploration of love by poets—long a fixture of Western poetic tradition—is thought to be in decline, with love itself understood to be a mere ideological overlay for the more “real” entities of physical sex and desire.

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Archaeopoetics

Word, Image, History

University of Alabama Press

Explores poetry as historical investigation, examining works by five contemporary poets whose creations represent new, materially emphatic methods of engaging with the past and producing new kinds of historical knowledge
 

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Experience

Thinking, Writing, Language, and Religion

University of Alabama Press

Norman Fischer’s Experience is the fruit of forty years of thinking on experimental writing and its practice, both as an investigation of reality and as a religious endeavor, by a major figure in contemporary Zen Buddhist practice and theology.

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The Astonishment Tapes

Talks on Poetry and Autobiography with Robin Blaser and Friends

University of Alabama Press

The edited transcript of revealing autobiographical audiotapes recorded by the groundbreaking poet Robin Blaser
 

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The Ecology of Modernism

American Environments and Avant-Garde Poetics

University of Alabama Press

The Ecology of Modernism explores the unexpected absence of an environmental ethic in American modernist and avant-garde poetics, given its keen concern with an environmental aesthetic, and explains why American modernism was never green. Examining the relationships of key modernist writers, poets, and musicians to nature, industrial development, and pollution, Joshua Schuster posits that the curious failure of modernist poets to develop an environmental ethnic was a deliberate choice and not an inadvertent omission.

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Intricate Thicket

Reading Late Modernist Poetries

University of Alabama Press

Intricate Thicket: Reading Late Modernist Poetries offers a collection of nineteen essays that deftly erodes the simplistic distinction between modernism and postmodernism, showing that many attributes of postmodernist verse form not a break with, but rather a continuation of, modernist poetry.

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What I Say

Innovative Poetry by Black Writers in America

Edited by Aldon Lynn Nielsen and Lauri Ramey; Preface by Aldon Lynn Nielsen and Lauri Ramey; Introduction by C. S. Giscombe
University of Alabama Press

What I Say is the second book in a landmark two-volume anthology that explodes narrow definitions of African American poetry by examining experimental poems often excluded from previous scholarship. The first volume, Every Goodbye Ain’t Gone, covers the period from the end of World War II to the mid-1970s. In What I Say, editors Aldon Lynn Nielsen and Lauri Ramey have assembled a comprehensive and dynamic collection that brings this pivotal work up to the present day.

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Active Romanticism

The Radical Impulse in Nineteenth-Century and Contemporary Poetic Practice

University of Alabama Press

A collection of essays highlighting the pervasive, yet often unacknowledged, role of Romantic poetry and poetics on modern and contemporary innovative poetry

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Reading the Difficulties

Dialogues with Contemporary American Innovative Poetry

University of Alabama Press

The bold essays that make up Reading the Difficulties offer case studies in and strategies for reading innovative poetry.

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Contemporaries and Snobs

University of Alabama Press

This new edition of Contemporaries and Snobs, a landmark collection of essays by Laura Riding, offers a counter-history of high modernist poetics.  

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Stubborn Poetries

Poetic Facticity and the Avant-Garde

University of Alabama Press

Stubborn Poetries is a study of poets whose work, because of its difficulty, apparent obduracy, or simple resistance to conventional explication, remains more-or-less firmly outside the canon.

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Fieldworks

From Place to Site in Postwar Poetics

University of Alabama Press

Fieldworks offers a historical account of the social, rhetorical, and material attempts to ground art and poetry in the physicality of a site.

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The Darkness of the Present

Poetics, Anachronism, and the Anomaly

University of Alabama Press

The Darkness of the Present includes essays that collectively investigate the roles of anomaly and anachronism as they work to unsettle commonplace notions of the “contemporary” in the field of poetics.

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The Cracks Between What We Are and What We Are Supposed to Be

Essays and Interviews

By Harryette Mullen; Introduction by Hank Lazer
University of Alabama Press

The Cracks Between What We Are and What We Are Supposed to Be forms an extended consideration not only of Harryette Mullen’s own work, methods, and interests as a poet, but also of issues of central importance to African American poetry and language, women’s voices, and the future of poetry.

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Phenomenal Reading

Essays on Modern and Contemporary Poetics

University of Alabama Press

The essays in Phenomenal Reading entice readers to cross accepted barriers, and highlight the work of poets who challenge language-as-usual in academia and the culture at large.

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Radical Affections

Essays on the Poetics of Outside

University of Alabama Press

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

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Radical Poetics and Secular Jewish Culture

University of Alabama Press

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.

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Thinking Poetics

Essays on George Oppen

Edited by Steve Shoemaker
University of Alabama Press

Thinking Poetics is a testament to Oppen's place in 20th and 21st-century poetic culture and an essential volume for anyone interested in Oppen's life or poetry

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Digital Poetics

Hypertext, Visual-Kinetic Text and Writing in Programmable Media

University of Alabama Press

Glazier investigates the ways in which computer technology has influenced and transformed the writing and dissemination of poetry
 

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Poetics & Polemics

1980-2005

By Jerome Rothenberg; Edited by Steven Clay; Introduction by Hank Lazer
University of Alabama Press

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.

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The Alphabet

University of Alabama Press

A remarkable and notorious literary achievement

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Artifice and Indeterminacy

An Anthology of New Poetics

University of Alabama Press

Brings together the most important writings on contemporary poetics

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Prehistoric Digital Poetry

An Archaeology of Forms, 1959-1995

University of Alabama Press

Explores pioneering works of digital poetry and demonstrates how technological constraints that would seemingly limit the aesthetics of poetry have instead extended and enriched poetic discourse
 

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The Point Is To Change It

Poetry and Criticism in the Continuing Present

University of Alabama Press

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.

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