Northwestern University Press, 1996 Paper: 978-0-8101-1308-4 | Cloth: 978-0-8101-1307-7 Library of Congress Classification PS3551.N415P37 1996 Dewey Decimal Classification 809.104
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Paradise & Method: Poetics and Praxis collects nearly two decades of work on poetics by one of the pioneers of the "language poetry" movement.
Addressing poetics from a poet's perspective, Andrews focuses on the ways in which meaning is produced and challenged. His essays aim "to map out opportunities for making sense (or making noise)--both in reading and writing contemporary literature. At the center has been a desire to explore language, as up close as possible, as a material and social medium for restagings of meaning and power." Andrews analyzes poetics and the production of meaning; alternative traditions and canons; and innovative contemporary poetry, particularly its break with many of the premises and constraints of even the most forward-looking modernisms.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
BRUCE ANDREWS has published widely in the field of poetics and as a poet; his publication credits include I Don't Have Any Paper So Shut Up (Or, Social Romanticism) (1992) and The L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E BOOK (1982). He is currently an associate professor of political science at Fordham University.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Author's Note
A. Position
Index
Text & Context
Writing Social Work & Political Practice
Constitution / Writing, Politics, Language, The Body
Total Equals What: Poetics & Praxis
Poetry as Explanation, Poetry as Praxis
B. Verb
Interview Project Interview (With Marjorie Perloff)
North by Northwest Interview (With the Kootenay School of Writing)
Reinventing Community: Symposium on/with Language Poets
America Poetries
Lines Linear How to Mean
We Are Embodiments of Circumstance
Be Careful Now You Know Sugar Melts in Water (On Sexuality)
Italian Poetics Today: Discussant Response
Revolution Only Fact Confected
C. Body
Misrepresentation (A Text for The Tennis Court Oath of John Ashbery)
Surface Explanation (On George Oppen)
Proof (On John Wieners)
Signification (On Ron Silliman's The Chinese Notebook)
The Politics of Scoring (On Ernest Robson)
Encyclopedia (On Tom Mandel)
The Hum of Words (On Rosmarie Waldrop)
Self Writing (On Michael Lally)
Code Words (On Roland Barthes' Image-Music-Text)
Idealism & Illusion (On Peter Gida & Roland Barthes)
Social Topography
Equals What?
Talks about Reading
Self / Ideology: Corpses That Devour Their Own Flesh (On Ron Silliman)
Solicitation / Keyboards (On/With David Bromige)
These Are Not My Words (On Michael Davidson)
Suture — & Absence of the Social (On Susan Howe)
Beyond Suture (On Susan Howe)
Under Erasure . . . (On Barrett Watten)
Transatlantic (On Recent British Poetry)
Paradise & Method: A Transcript
Work Cited
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