Syncopations : the stress of innovation in contemporary American poetry /
Makes a case for innovation as the generative and thematic force in American poetry of the late 20th century. Syncopations is an analysis of the sustaining vitality behind contemporary American poetry from 1975 to the present day by one of the most astute observers and critics in the field. The 12 e...
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| Language: | English |
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Tuscaloosa :
University of Alabama Press,
©2004.
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| Series: | Modern and contemporary poetics.
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Table of Contents:
- List of Illustrations; Preface; Introduction; 1. Women, Innovation, and "Improbable Evidence"; 2. Seeing Double: The Grapes of Dysraphism; 3. News and Noise: Poetry and Distortion; 4. The Catastrophe of Charm; 5. Literacy Effects: Handling the Fiction, Nursing the Wounds; 6. Ethnopoetics and the Pathology of Modernism; 7. Every Day Another Vanguard; 8. Experiment as a Claim of the Book: Twenty Different Fruits on One Different Tree; 9. To Moisten the Atmosphere: Notes on Clayton Eshleman; 10. "Riddle Iota Sublime": Ronald Johnson's ARK.