On the outskirts of form practicing cultural poetics

Summary: Essays on modern and contemporary poetry from a cultural studies perspective.

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ISBN: 9780819571373
ISBN: 0819571377
ISBN: 9780819569578
ISBN: 0819569577
ISBN: 9780819569585
ISBN: 0819569585
ISBN: 1283309327
ISBN: 9781283309325
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource (x, 329 pages) : illustrations.
Publisher: Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, ©2011.

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	A public language -- On the outskirts of form: cosmopoetics in the shadow of NAFTA -- The dream of a public language: modernity, textuality, and the citizen subject -- 2. Objectivist frames -- Life by water: Lorine Niedecker and critical regionalism -- "Closed in glass": Oppen's class spectacles -- 3. Approaching the new American poetry -- Archaeologist of morning: Charles Olson, Edward Dorn and historical method -- "The repeated insistence": Creeley's rage -- A Cold War correspondence: gender trouble in the letters of Robert Duncan and Denise Levertov -- Looking through lithium: James Schuyler as Jim the Jerk -- Ekphrasis and the New York School -- The pleasures of merely circulating: John Ashbery and the jargon of inauthenticity -- "Struck against parenthesis": Shelley and postmodern romanticisms -- "Skewed by design": from act to speech act in language writing -- Vertigo: thinking toward action in the poetry of George Oppen -- Afterword: impossible poetries.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.