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
Telling It Slant
Avant Garde Poetics of the 1990S
Everybody's Autonomy
Connective Reading and Collective Identity
Everybody's Autonomy is about reading and identity. Experimental texts empower the reader by encouraging self-governing approaches to reading and by placing the reader on equal footing with the author.
Extraordinary Measures
Afrocentric Modernism and 20th-Century American Poetry
This broad overview by an established poet and cultural critic reveals the rich tapestry of African American poetry as it has emerged over the past century.
Discrepant Engagement
Dissonance, Cross-Culturality, and Experimental Writing
This highly regarded and frequently referenced work of literary criticism is essential to any study of avant garde poetics.
Translating the Unspeakable
Poetry and the Innovative Necessity
The Objectivist Nexus
Essays in Cultural Poetics
Outstanding poets and critics present cultural readings of the Objectivist poets, a group whose works have been largely unexamined.
