Time in Time: Short Poems, Long Poems, and the Rhetoric of North American Avant-Gardism, 1963-2008 9780773588073

A look at experiment and continuity in North American poetry since the 1960s.

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Time in Time: Short Poems, Long Poems, and the Rhetoric of North American Avant-Gardism, 1963-2008
9780773588073

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J. Mark Smith

Table of contents :
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
1: Introduction: Poetic Form and the Rhetoric of North American Avant-Gardism, 1963–2008
2: Lyric and Experimental Long Poems: Intersections
3: More Apparent than Real: The Lyric/Avant-Garde Divide
4: Hannah Weiner’s Book in Air: Clairvoyant Journal and the Clair-Style Poems
5: The Lyric Turn: A Poetics of Falling
6: By the Numbers: Jackson Mac Low’s Light Poems and Algorithmic Digraphism
7: Better Living through ‘Pataphysics: The Biosemiotics of Kenneth Goldsmith
8: Getting Every Word In: A.R. Ammons’s Garbage and the Corpora
9: Day Labour
Notes
Bibliography
Contributors
Index

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