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Trade Review“With layers of richness and historicized depth,
American Hybrid Poetics makes a distinct contribution to the field. Robbins’s lively writing and strong critical voice are splendid.” -- Linda Kinnahan * Duquesne University *
"An incisive study of a hotly-debated term in U.S. poetry today,
American Hybrid Poetics reveals how women’s hybrid forms converse with, and subvert, the gendered tropes of mass media culture. Robbins reveals that women’s hybrid poetics possesses not only a history but—more important—a politics, whose radicalism should no longer be ignored."
-- Elisabeth A. Frost * author of The Feminist Avant-Garde in American Poetry *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction
1. Gertrude Stein's
Blood on the Dining-Room Floor: Hybrid Poetics in Modernist / Mass Culture
2. Laura Mullen's
Murmur: Crime Fiction, Cruel Optimism, and a Hybrid Poetics of Affect
3. Alice Notley's
Disobedience: The Postmodern Subject, Paranoia, and a New Poetics of Noir
4. Harryette Mullen's Poetics in Prose: A Return to the Modernist Hybrid
5. Claudia Rankine's
Don't Let Me Be Lonely: A Lyrical Long Poem in a Post-Language Age
Notes
Index
