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Book SynopsisReading and rewriting our understanding of the poetics of modernism and postmodernism, this work identifies a counter-tradition in twentieth-century poetry. It traces a continuity of thought and practice through the different poetic work of objectivists Louis Zukofsky, George Oppen, Carl Rakosi, and John Cage.
Table of ContentsIntroduction: ""The Medium Is the 'Method'"": Toward a Postmodern Poetics of Counter-Method; 1. A ""No-Man's-Land"": Postmodern Citationality in Zukofsky's ""Poem Beginning 'The'""; 2. A ""Seeing"" Through Refraction: The Rear-View Mirror Image in George Oppen's Collected Poems; 3. Be Aware of ""the Medusa's Glance"": The Objectivist Lens and Carl Rakosi's Poetics of Strabismal Seeing in ""Adventures of the Head""; 4. The Politics of Critical Parody: Chance Operation and the Mesostic Method in John Cage; 5. Articulating the Inarticulate: Singularities and the Counter-Method in Susan Howe; 6. Reflection upon ""My [Unreflected] Life"": M. Merleau-Ponty and Lyn Hejinian's Poetics of ""Genetic Phenomenology""; 7. ""Nonsense Bargains"": Inversely Proportional Writing and the Poetics of ""Expenditure Without Reserve"" in Bruce Andrews's Work; 8. ""Slowed Reason"" as ""Idling Language"": Postmodern Counter-Speed and the Poetics of Sediment in Charles Bernstein; Coda: The Postmodern Poetics of Counter-Method: Toward a Poetry Yet to Come; Notes.
