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American avant-garde poetry and the poetics of counter-method
"The medium is the 'method'": toward a postmodern poetics of counter-method -- A "no man's land": postmodern citationality in Zukofsky's "poem beginning 'The'" -- A "seeing" through refraction: the rear-view mirror image in George Oppen's Collected poems -- Be aware of "the medusa's glance": the objectivist lens and Carl Rakosi's poetics of strabismal seeing in "Adventures of the head" -- The politics of critical parody: chance operation and the mesostic method in John Cage -- Articulating the inarticulate: singularities and the counter-method in Susan Howe -- Reflection upon "my [unreflected] life": M. Merleau-Ponty and Lyn Hejinian's poetics of "genetic phenomenology" -- "Nonsense bargains": inversely proportional writing and the poetics of "expenditure without reserve" in Bruce Andrews's work -- "Slowed reason" as "idling language": postmodern counter-speed and the poetics of sediment in Charles Bernstein -- Coda: the postmodern poetics of counter-method: toward a poetry yet to come.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-288) and index.