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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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