Attention equals life : the pursuit of the everyday in contemporary poetry and culture

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Attention equals life : the pursuit of the everyday in contemporary poetry and culture

Andrew Epstein

Oxford University Press, 2018, c2016

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [323]-346) and index

"First issued as an Oxford University Press paperback, 2018" --T.p. verso

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Poetry has long been thought of as a genre devoted to grand subjects, timeless themes, and sublime beauty. Why, then, have contemporary poets turned with such intensity to documenting and capturing the everyday and mundane? Drawing on insights about the nature of everyday life from philosophy, history, and critical theory, Andrew Epstein traces the modern history of this preoccupation and considers why it is so much with us today. Attention Equals Life argues that a potent hunger for everyday life explodes in the post-1945 period as a reaction to the rapid, unsettling transformations of this epoch, which have resulted in a culture of perilous distraction. Epstein demonstrates that poetry is an important, and perhaps unlikely, cultural form that has mounted a response, and even a mode of resistance, to a culture suffering from an acute crisis of attention. In this timely and engaging study, Epstein examines why a compulsion to represent the everyday becomes predominant in the decades after modernism and why it has so often sparked genre-bending formal experimentation. With chapters devoted to illuminating readings of a diverse group of writers-including poets associated with influential movements like the New York School, language poetry, and conceptual writing-the book considers the variety of forms contemporary poetry of everyday life has taken, and analyzes how gender, race, and political forces all profoundly inflect the experience and the representation of the quotidian. By exploring the rise of experimental realism as a poetic mode and the turn to rule-governed "everyday-life projects," Attention Equals Life offers a new way of understanding a vital strain at the heart of twentieth- and twenty-first century literature. It not only charts the evolution of a significant concept in cultural theory and poetry, but also reminds readers that the quest to pay attention to the everyday within today's frenetic world of and social media is an urgent and unending task.

目次

Acknowledgements Introduction: The Poetics of Everyday Life Since 1945 Chapter 1: The Crisis of Attention, Everyday Life Theory, and Contemporary Poetry Chapter 2: "Each Day So Different, Yet Still Alike": James Schuyler and the Elusive Everyday Chapter 3: "The Tiny Invites Attention": A. R. Ammons's Quotidian Muse Chapter 4: Writing the Maternal Everyday: Bernadette Mayer and her "Daughters" (Hoa Nguyen, Susan Holbrook, Laynie Browne) Chapter 5: "There is No Content Here, Only Dailiness": Poetry as Critique of Everyday Life in Ron Silliman's Ketjak Chapter 6: Everyday Life Projects in Contemporary Poetry and Culture (Kenneth Goldsmith, Claudia Rankine, Brenda Coultas, Harryette Mullen) Conclusion: Claudia Rankine's Citizen and Beyond Notes Works Cited Index

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