Ideas of Order in Contemporary American Poetry

Edited by Diana von Finck and Oliver Scheiding.

14 essays examine the increasing experimentation with ideas of order in American poetry since the 1980s, structured by three perspectives: Poetry as the Other Language; Poetry as Social Act; Poetry and the Self. This volume addresses traditional and non-traditional practices of poetry that reveal the numerous phenomena and spectra of order. Aus dem Inhalt: O. Scheiding: Ideas of Order in Contemporary American Poetry - J. Rothenberg: The Future of Poetry in the Computer Age: The "Medusa" Interview - Part I: Poetry as the Other Language - H. Zapf: Structure and Event in Poetry: "12^2" by Charles Bernstein - G. M. Grabher: "Playing Hide and Seek in the Nothing that Is": 'Silent' Meaning and Order in the Poetry and Aesthetics of John Cage - D. von Finck: "what am i doing here?": David Antin's Talk Poems - K.-A. Tan: "To Catch the World / at Pure Idea": Structures of Order and Disorder in Jorie Graham's Poetry - C. Albers: Can Meter Matter? Ideas of Order in the Poetry of Dana Gioia - Part II: Poetry as Social Act - C. Spahr: Holding up the 'Poetry Front': A. Waldman's Politics of the Aesthetic - G. W. Foust: "Not [Not] the Poet, Not [Not] Me": Frederick Seidel and Lisa Jarnot after 9/11 - N. W. Balestrini: Between California and Camp: Space and Structure in the Multipart Poems of Lawson Fusao Inada - Part III: Poetry and the Self - A. Cazé: Alterna(rra)tives: Syntactic Spaces and Self-Construction in the Writing of Lyn Hejinian and Leslie Scalapino - S. Fritz: "What were Caesar's battles but Caesar's prose": Self-Writing and the Open Text in Lyn Hejinian's "My Life" - P. Phillips: "Shade of a Shade": The Doomed Order of Alan Shapiro's "Song and Dance" - T. Steffen: The Idea of Order in Rita Dove's "Mother Love. 264 Seiten, broschiert (ZAA Monograph Series; Band 6/Königshausen & Neumann 2007) leichte Lagerspuren/minor shelfwear