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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
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.
Modernism the Morning After
By Bob Perelman
University of Alabama Press
Articulates a more capacious model for thinking about modernism, past, present, and future
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
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.
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.
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
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.
The Astonishment Tapes
Talks on Poetry and Autobiography with Robin Blaser and Friends
By Robin Blaser; Edited by Miriam Nichols
University of Alabama Press
The edited transcript of revealing autobiographical audiotapes recorded by the groundbreaking poet Robin Blaser
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