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The transmutation of love and avant-garde poetics /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Heuving, Jeanne, 1951- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, [2016]
Series:Modern and contemporary poetics.
Subjects:
Love in literature.
American poetry > 20th century > History and criticism.
Experimental poetry, American > History and criticism.
American poetry.
Experimental poetry, American.
1900 - 1999
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Love poetics. Projective love and libidinized field poetics
  • Being in love and writing love
  • Imagism as projective love
  • Love poesis. "Circe's this craft": Ezra Pound's Beginnings
  • "Love is writing": the advent of H.D.
  • "The first beloved": Robert Duncan's Open field
  • Kathleen Fraser and "falling into the page"
  • Nathaniel Mackey and "Black sounds"
  • Afterword.