Phenomenology and the late twentieth-century American long poem
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Phenomenology and the late twentieth-century American long poem
(Modern and contemporary poetry and poetics)
Palgrave Macmillan, c2019
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Phenomenology and the Late Twentieth-Century American Long Poem reads major figures including Charles Olson, Lyn Hejinian, Nathaniel Mackey, Susan Howe and Rachel Blau DuPlessis within a new approach to the long poem tradition. Through a series of contextualised close readings, it explores the ways in which American poets developed their poetic forms by engaging with a variety of European phenomenologists, including Hannah Arendt, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Martin Heidegger, Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida. Consolidating recent materials on the role of Continental Philosophy in American poetics, this book explores the theoretical and historical contexts in which avant-garde poets have developed radically new methods of making poems long. Matthew Carbery offers a timely commentary on a number of major works of American poetry whilst providing ground-breaking research into the wider philosophical context of late twentieth-century poetic experimentation.
Table of Contents
1 Coming To Terms With The American Long Poem- Introduction 1
* Defining the American Long Poem
* Reading the American Long Poem
* Phenomenology and American Poetics
* Charles Olson's Phenomenological Poetics
* Acts of Poetic Extension
2 Finding A Word For Ourselves - George Oppen's Of Being Numerous 42
* Letting The World Be Encountered: Oppen, Heidegger and Curiosity
* The Thing Seen Each Day: Seeing and Actualness
* We Live Among: Articulating Numerousness
3 A Huge Companionship - Robin Blaser's Image-Nations 72
* A Continuum of Utterance: Self, Exteriority and 'The Chiasm'
* Interchange Is A Constant Folding: Seriality, Cosmology and 'The Fold'
* In Company With The Messenger: A Phenomenology of Coterie
4 A Grand Essay On Perception - Lyn Hejinian & Leslie Scalapino's Sight 106
* Occurrence and Description: Envisioning Collaboration
* The Sight/Site of Poetry: An Epistolary Seriality
* Downcast Eyes: Ocularcentrism and Visionary Poetics
5 A Massive System of Urgency - Susan Howe's Pierce Arrow 144
* Retrospective Excursions: History and The Margin
* A Stumbling Phenomenology: Peirce and Husserl
* Ethics is an Optics: Howe and Levinas
6 Adumbration Bound Our Book - Nathaniel Mackey's Song of Andoumboulou 181
* Andoumboulouous Liminality: Hybrid Serialities
* Improvisation is already an improvisation of improvisation: Improvised Form and Jazz Poetics
* A Long Song Of Wandering: A Phenomenology of Song
7 Inside The Middle Of The Long Poem - Rachel Blau DuPlessis' Drafts 222
* Trace Elements: Derrida and the Phenomenology of the Trace
* The Work a Gigantic Memory Of Itself: Drafting, Gridding and Folding
* Reading the line of "It": Deixis and Dispersal
8 An Ever-Renewed Experience Of Its Own Beginning - Conclusion
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