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Book SynopsisA collection of critical texts exploring poetry's engagement with the social
Trade Review"Recommended."--
Choice "A brilliant resource."--
Rain Taxi"It is time for this book. Poetry is studied more and more frequently with a cultural studies approach, and Damon and Livingston provide the perfect balance in this collection."--Juliana Spahr, coeditor of
Poetry and Pedagogy: The Challenge of the Contemporary and author of several collections of poetry
"A reader that brings together foundational essays on the conjunction of poetry and cultural studies is not just timely but more and more urgent as the canon of poetry taught in the academy opens beyond a small clutch of 'masterpieces' and cultural studies begins to engage popular poetry, newspaper poetry, rap, slam, and other ephemeral performance poetries. This book is an important intervention in the reconfiguration of these fields of study."--Adalaide Morris, author of
How to Live/What to Do: H.D.'s Cultural PoeticsTable of ContentsACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
INTRODUCTION 1
Maria Damon and Ira LivingstonPrecursors 1
Preface to
Lyrical Ballads 21 WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
2
Two Essays on Poetry and Society
25
THEODOR ADORNO
3
On Some Motifs in Baudelaire
37
WALTER BENJAMIN
4
What Is a Minor Literature?
56
GILLES DELEUZE AND FELIX GUATTARI
5
Of the Sorrow Songs
61
W. E. B. DU BOIS
6
A Theory of Discourse
67
ANTONY EASTHOPE
Ethnography 7
Some Aspects of Folk Poetry
77
AMERICO PAREDES
8
The Signifying Monkey and the Language of Signifyin(g): Rhetorical Difference and the Orders of Meaning
90
HENRY LOUIS GATES JR.
9
Shifting Politics in Bedouin Love Poetry
116
LILA ABU-LAUGHOD
10
The Poetric Construction of Self
133
STEVEN C. CATON
11
Tell Them about Us: Some Poems from Southie
147
MARIA DAMON
Mass Culture/Cultural Politics 12
The Bride of the Assembly Line: Radical Poetics in Construction
163
BARRETT WATTEN
13
Assembly Poetics in the Global Economy: Nicaragua
177
BRUCE CAMPBELL
14
Black Texts/Black Contexts
195
TRICIA ROSE
15
Kickin' Eality, Kickin' Ballistics: Gangsta Rap and Postindustrial Los Angeles
199
ROBIN D. G. KELLEY
16
Poetry for the People
213
AMITAVA KUMAR
17
La Douceur de foyer: Lyric Poetry of the Year
1857 as a Model for the Communication of Social Norms
226
HANS ROBERT JAUSS
National (De)Formations 18
Smoke Rings: Worker-Poets in the France of Louis-Philippe
237
JACQUES RANCIERE
19
Rimbaud and the Transformation of Social Space
248
KRISTIN ROSS
20
Poetry and the Public: The Social Form of Modern U.S. Poetics
266
JOSEPH HARRINGTON
21
Nation and Imagination
285
DIPESH CHAKRABARTY
22
Angel Island and the Poetics of Error
301
YUNTE HUANG
23
"HOO, HOO, HOO": Some Episodes in the Construction of Modern Male Whiteness
310
RACHEL BLAU DUPLESSIS
Subject (De)Formations 24
A Poem Is Being Written
333
EVE KOSOFSKY SEDGWICK
25
A Musician Is Being Beaten
340
JOHN MOWITT
26
Poetry and Anthropology
347
TRINH T. MINH-HA
27
Poetry Is Not a Luxury
355
AUDRE LORDE
28
A Blow Is Like an Instrument
359
CHARLES BERNSTEIN
359
Reinventing Tradition 29
Sappho Is Burning: Fragmentary Introduction
375
PAGE DUBOIS
30
Genocide, Modernism, and American Verse: Reading Diana Der-Hovanessian
390
WALTER KALAIDJIAN
31
The Forms of Things Unknown
406
STEPHEN HENDERSON
32
History of the Voice, 1979=1981
417
KAMAU BRATHWAITE
33
Of Poetry and Power: Maya Angelou on the Inaugural Stage
428
ZOFIA BURR
34
Nuyorican Language
437
MIGUEL ALGARIN
INDEX
447
