American poetry as transactional art
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American poetry as transactional art
（Modern and contemporary poetics）
The University of Alabama Press, c2020
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-224) and index
Summary: "American Poetry as Transactional Art explores a salient quality of much avant-garde American poetry that has so far lacked sustained treatment: namely, its role as a transactional art. Specifically Fredman describes this role as the ways it consistently engages in conversation, talk, correspondence, going beyond the scope of its own subjects and forms-its existential interactions with the outside world. Poetry operating in this vein draws together images, ideas, practices, rituals, and verbal techniques from around the globe, and across time-not to equate them, but to establish dialogue, to invite as many guests as possible to the World Party, which Robert Duncan has called the "symposium of the whole.""-- Provided by publisher
Contents of Works
- Preface
- Introduction
- Poetry & spirit: against orthodoxy. 1. Why mysticism in twentieth-century American poetry?
- 2. Jerome Rothenberg's Technicians of the sacred : transactions between the indigenous and the avant-garde
- 3. Judaism as loss and the Buddhist element in Michael Heller's Eschaton
- Poetry & its time: revising literary history; 4. "And all now is war" : George Oppen, Charles Olson, and literary generations
- 5. "The lordly and isolate satyrs" : Charles Olson's contemporaries
- 6. Laurie Anderson in the Reagan Era
- Poetry & the arts: multimedia exchange: 7. Robert Creeley, Marisol, and presences as transaction network
- 8. The language art of David Antin's talk poems
- 9. Audio file audiophile : listening for ambient poetry
- Poetry & prose: intimate opposition; 10. Translation and not-understanding
- 11. Paul Auster's Solitude in the room of the book
- 12. Lyn Hejinian becomes a person on paper
- Epilogue: Teaching American poetry
