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A Poetics of Impasse in Modern and Contemporary American Poetry

University of Alabama Press

A noted critic addresses the problem of silence in contemporary experimental poetry

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Dissonance (if you are interested)

University of Alabama Press

Dissonance (if you are interested) consists of Incisive essays on modern poetry and translation by a noted poet, translator, and critic.

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This Is Called Moving

A Critical Poetics of Film

By Abigail Child; Foreword by Tom Gunning
University of Alabama Press

Explores how two language systems inform and cross-fertilize the author’s work
 

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Distant Reading

Performance, Readership, and Consumption in Contemporary Poetry

University of Alabama Press

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.

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Integral Music

Languages Of African-American Innovation

University of Alabama Press

An important study of African American contributions to contemporary American poetry.
 

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Differentials

Poetry, Poetics, Pedagogy

University of Alabama Press

A new collection of essays from a distinguished critic of contemporary poetry

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Syncopations

The Stress of Innovation in Contemporary American Poetry

University of Alabama Press

Makes a case for innovation as the generative and thematic force in American poetry of the late 20th century
 

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Emancipating Pragmatism

Emerson, Jazz, and Experimental Writing

University of Alabama Press

A radical rereading of Emerson that posits African- American culture, literature, and jazz as the very continuation and embodiment of pragmatic thought and democratic tradition
 

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Simulcast

Four Experiments in Criticism

University of Alabama Press

A provocative overview of avant-garde American poetry of the past 25 years that raises important questions about the practice of criticism

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The Obligation Toward the Difficult Whole

Postmodernist Long Poems

University of Alabama Press

A smart, eclectic analysis of nine long poems written by postmodernist poets
 

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Another South

Experimental Writing in the South

Edited by Bill Lavender; Introduction by Hank Lazer
University of Alabama Press

Gathers the best work of flourishing but often-neglected avant-garde southern poets
 

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Architectural Body

University of Alabama Press

A verbal articulation of the authors' visionary theory of how the human body, architecture, and creativity define and sustain one another
 

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Led by Language

The Poetry and Poetics of Susan Howe

University of Alabama Press

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.

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We Who Love to Be Astonished

Experimental Women's Writing and Performance Poetics

University of Alabama Press

The first critical volume devoted to the full range of women's postmodern works

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Telling It Slant

Avant Garde Poetics of the 1990S

University of Alabama Press
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