{"product_id":"poetry-as-rereading-american-avantgarde-poetry-and-the-poetics-of-countermethod-avantgarde-and-modernism-studies-9780810124837","title":"Poetry as Rereading American Avantgarde Poetry","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReading 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: \"\"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.","brand":"Northwestern University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51038254858583,"sku":"9780810124837","price":99.91,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780810124837.jpg?v=1750939667","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/poetry-as-rereading-american-avantgarde-poetry-and-the-poetics-of-countermethod-avantgarde-and-modernism-studies-9780810124837","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}