Contents
Acknowledgments and Permissions
Introduction
Questioning Poetics
Language Writing
Material Practices
Periodizing Language
Constructing Frames
Formal Agency
Coda: Consequences
Chapter 1: The Turn to Language and the 1960s
Continuing the 1960s
Poetry as Political Speech
Emancipating Enlightenment
Fiat Lux
Hari Om Namo Shivaya
Impossibility as Politics
The Turn to Language in Poetry
Constructivist Poetics
Chapter 2: Late Capitalism and Language Writing
Late Capitalism
Language Writing
Radical Particulars
Headless Heads
Serial Transgressions
Chapter 3: Collective Autobiography: The Grand Piano and the Politics of Community
Piano
Forte
Beginnings
Middles
Ends
Coda
Chapter 4: Periodizing the Present: Language Writing, Conceptual Art, and Conceptual Writing
Writing the Present
The Conceptual Date
Conceptual Writing
Chapter 5: On the Advantages of Negativity: Avant-Garde Poetry, New Music, Postindustrial Art
Negativity
Performative Poetics
New Music
Postindustrial Art
Critical Agency
Chapter 6: The Expanded Object of the Poetic Field: Or, What Is a Poet/Critic?
Object Lessons
Subject Formations
Notes
Bibliography
Index