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Rewriting the Word "God"
In the Arc of Converging Lines between Innovative Theory, Theology, and Poetry
By Romana Huk
University of Alabama Press
Innovative poetry, philosophy, theology and new sciences converge in the project of rewriting the word “God”
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
Bowed Some, Chanted a Little
Philip Whalen's Zen Journals and the San Francisco Renaissance
Edited by Brian Unger; By Philip Whalen
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
Sustaining Air
The Life of Larry Eigner
University of Alabama Press
The biography of a poet seminal to postwar American poetry
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
Writing into the Future
New American Poetries from "The Dial" to the Digital
By Alan Golding
University of Alabama Press
A career-spanning collection of essays from a leading scholar of avant-garde poetry
Wreading
A Poetics of Awareness, or How Do We Know What We Know?
By Jed Rasula
University of Alabama Press
A diverse collection of essays and interviews on reading, teaching, and writing poetry from a preeminent critic and scholar
Finding the Weight of Things
Larry Eigner's Ecrippoetics
By George Hart
University of Alabama Press
An innovative study of how a prescient poet imagined ecology and embodiment
Orphic Bend
Music and Innovative Poetics
University of Alabama Press
Restages fundamental debates about the relationship between poetry and music
American Poetry as Transactional Art
University of Alabama Press
Explores the ways American poetry engages with visual art, music, fiction, spirituality, and performance art
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
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.
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.
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.
Active Romanticism
The Radical Impulse in Nineteenth-Century and Contemporary Poetic Practice
Edited by Julie Carr and Jeffrey C. Robinson
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
Reading the Difficulties
Dialogues with Contemporary American Innovative Poetry
Edited by Thomas Fink and Judith Halden-Sullivan
University of Alabama Press
The bold essays that make up Reading the Difficulties offer case studies in and strategies for reading innovative poetry.
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.
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.
Fieldworks
From Place to Site in Postwar Poetics
By Lytle Shaw
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Radical Poetics and Secular Jewish Culture
Edited by Stephen Paul Miller and Daniel Morris
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.
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
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
Poetics & Polemics
1980-2005
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.
The Alphabet
By Ron Silliman
University of Alabama Press
A remarkable and notorious literary achievement
Artifice and Indeterminacy
An Anthology of New Poetics
Edited by Christopher Beach
University of Alabama Press
Brings together the most important writings on contemporary poetics
Prehistoric Digital Poetry
An Archaeology of Forms, 1959-1995
By Christopher Thompson Funkhouser; Foreword by Sandy Baldwin
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
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.
The Pink Guitar
Writing as Feminist Practice
University of Alabama Press
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
University of Alabama Press
Examines the work of experimental poets and the innovative forms they have fashioned to challenge commonplace assumptions about gender and cultural authority
Ashbery's Forms of Attention
University of Alabama Press
A major contribution to Ashbery studies and to poetics
Hart Crane
After His Lights
University of Alabama Press
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
Edited by Aldon Lynn Nielsen and Lauri Ramey
University of Alabama Press
Showcases brilliant and experimental work in African American poetry.
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
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.
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
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.
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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