We who love to be astonished : experimental women's writing and performance poetics /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Tuscaloosa :
University of Alabama Press,
[2002]
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| Series: | Modern and contemporary poetics.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: oppositions and astonishing continguities / by Laura Hinton and Cynthia Hogue
- Part I. Formal thresholds
- "A poetics of emerging evidence": experiment in Kathleen Fraser's poetry / by Eileen Gregory
- Asterisk: separation at the threshold of meaning in the poetry of Rae Armantrout / by Ron Silliman
- Alice Notley's experimental epic: "an ecstasy of finding another way of being" / by Susan McCabe
- Intimacy and experiment in Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge's Empathy / by Charles Altieri
- Part II. In the margins of form
- Towards a new politics of representation? absence and desire in Denise Chávez's The last of the menu girls / by AnaLouise Keating
- Beyond the frame of whiteness: Harryette Mullen's revisionary border work / by Cynthia Hogue
- Untranslatable communities, productive translation, and public transport: Rosmarie Waldrop's A key into the language of America and Joy Harjo's The woman who fell from the sky / by Jonathan Monroe
- "Nothing, for a woman, is worth trying": a key into the rules of Rosmarie Waldrop's experimentalism / by Lynn Keller
- Rules and restraints in women's experimental writing / by Carla Harryman
- Part III. The visual referent/visual page
- Im.age ... dis.solve: the linguistic image in the critical lyric of Norma Cole and Ann Lauterbach / by Charles Borkhuis
- Postmodern romance and the descriptive fetish of vision in Fanny Howe's The lives of a spirit and Lyn Hejinian's My life / by Laura Hinton
- "Drawings with words": Susan Howe's visual poetics / by Alan Golding
- "Bodies written off": economies of race and gender in the visual/verbal collaborative clash of Erica Hunt's and Alison Saar's Arcade / by Linda A. Kinnahan
- Part IV. Performative bodies
- "In another tongue": body, image, text in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictée / by Elisabeth A. Frost
- Painful bodies: Kathy Acker's last texts / by Nicole Cooley
- "Eyes in all heads": Anne Waldman's performance of bigendered imagination in Iovis 1 / by Heather Thomas
- "Sonic revolutionaries": voice and experiment in the spoken-word poetry of Tracie Morris / by Kathleen Crown
- Capillary currents: Jayne Cortez / by Aldon Lynn Nielsen
- Afterword: "Draft 48: being astonished" / by Rachel Blau DuPlessis.