Contents
Preface
I. L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E
In Unum Pluribus: Toward a More Perfect Invention
You Can’t Evict an Idea: The Poetics of Occupy Wall Street (with Jane Malcolm)
Sounding the Word
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Disfiguring Abstraction
The Expanded Field of L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E
Coda: Enough!
II. Pitch
Gertrude Stein: The Difference Is Spreading
Louis Zukofsky
Charles Olson: A Note on “The Kingfishers”
Paul Celan’s Folds and Veils
Barbara Guest: Composing Herself
Jackson Mac Low: Poetry as Art
Robin Blaser’s Holy Forest
Robert Creeley: Hero of the Local
Larry Eigner’s Endless Song
John Ashbery: The Meandering Yangtze
Hannah Weiner’s Medium
Haroldo de Campos Thou Art Translated (Knot)
Jerome Rothenberg: Double Preface
“And autumnstruck we would not hear the song”: On Thomas McEvilley
Leslie Scalapino’s Rhythmic Intensities
Maggie O’Sullivan: Colliderings
Johanna Drucker: Figuring the Word
III. Echopoetics
Contemporary Literature (with Allison Cummings and Rocco Marinaccio)
Musica Falsa: On Shadowtime (with Eric Denut)
Foreign Literature Studies (with Nie Zhenzhao)
The Humanities at Work (with Yubraj Aryal)
Bomb (with Jay Sanders)
Chicago Weekly (with Daniel Benjamin)
FSG Poetry: All That Glitters Is Not Costume Jewelry (with Alan Gilbert)
Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses: Editing as Com(op)posing (with Manuel Brito)
Études anglaises: Poetry’s Clubfoot—Process, Faktura, Intensification (with Penelope Galey-Sacks)
Evening Will Come: Off-Key (with Joshua Marie Wilkinson)
Wolf (with Stephen Ross)
IV. Bent Studies
The Pataquerical Imagination: Midrashic Antinomianism and the Promise of Bent Studies (a fantasy in 140 fits)
Pataquericals & Poetics