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Book SynopsisFeaturing contributions from the theorists in the field, this work aims to renegotiate the contours of what might constitute contemporary poetics, ranging from the historical advent of concrete poetry to the technopoetics of cyberspace.It addresses the limits of a writing practice that engages concretely with what it means to be contemporary.
Table of ContentsPreface; Introduction: Transversions of the Contemporary; 1. END GAME; How Empty Is My Bread Pudding?, by Charles Bernstein; After Language Poetry: Modernity & Its Discontents, by Marjorie Perloff; 2. PRECURSORS; Getting Past Odradek, by Kevin Theall; The Avant-Garde & Radical Modernism in the Prehistory of Cyberculture, by Donald F. Theall; Doctor Williams's Position, Updated, by Bob Perelmon; The Infinite Evasion of As, by Simon Critchley; Corporal Poetics: Kathy Acker's Writing, by D. J. Huppatz; Frank Zappa, Captain Beetheart, & the Secret History of Maximalism, by Michel Devitte & Andrew Norris; 3. CONJUNCTIONS; Metaphor: The Colour of Being, by Ricardo Nirenberg; Vagueness, by Keston Sutherland; AND &, by D.J. Huppatz, Nicole Tomlinson, & Julian Savage; Readings Notes, by Bruce Andrews; Lost and Found, by Bruce Andrews; 4. CURSORS; Concrete Poetry: A Manifesta, by Augusto de Campos; Questionnaire of the Yale Symposium, by Augusto de Campos; Epigrams, Particle Theory, & Hypertext, by Darren Tofts; From Hypertext to Codework, by McKenzie Work; Codeworld, by Alan Sondheim; 5. TRANSPOSITIONS; Techno-Poetics in the Vortext, by Louis Armand; Parapoetics & the Architectural Leap, by Steve McCoffery; Traps or Tools & Damage, by Allen Fisher; Discontinued Meditations, by Steve McCoffery; Screening the Page/Paging the Screen: Digital Poetics & the Differential Text, by Marjorie Perloff; Image Heuretics, by Gregory L. Ulmer; The Poetics of Cyberspace: Two Ways to Get a Life, by J. Hillis Miller.
