Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Linearity, Anomaly, and Anachronism: Toward an Archaeology of the New
1. Cacophony, Abstraction, and Potentiality: The Fate of the Dada Sound Poem
2. Corrosive Poetics: The Relief Composition of Ronald Johnson’s Radi os
3. Interpretation and the Limit Text: An Approach to Jackson Mac Low’s Words nd Ends from Ez
4. Transcoherence and Deletion: The Mesostic Writings of John Cage
5. A Chapter of Accidents: Disfiguration and the Marbled Page in Laurence Sterne’s The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
6. From Muse to Mousepad: Informatics and the Avant-Garde
7. Parapoetics and the Architectural Leap
8. “To Lose One’s Way” (For Snails and Nomads): The Radical Labyrinths of Constant and Arakawa and Gins
9. Difficult Harmony: The Picturesque Detail in Gilpin, Price, and Clark Coolidge’s Space
10. The ’Pataphysics of Auschwitz
11. The Instrumental Nightingale: Some Counter-Musical Inflections in Poetry from Gray to Celan
Notes
Works Cited
Index