A guide to Poetics Journal : writing in the expanded field, 1982/1998, with the copublication of Poetics Journal digital archive

Lyn Hejinian and Barrett Watten are internationally recognized poet/critics. Together they edited the highly influential Poetics Journal, whose ten issues, published between 1982 and 1998, contributed to the surge of interest in the practice of poetics. A Guide to Poetics Journal presents the major conversations and debates from the journal, and invites readers to expand on the critical and creative engagements they represent.

In making their selections for the guide, the editors have sought to showcase a range of innovative poetics and to indicate the diversity of fields and activities with which they might be engaged. The introduction and headnotes by the editors provide historical and thematic context for the articles. The Guide is intended to be of sustained creative and classroom use, while the companion Archive of all ten issues of Poetics Journal allows users to remix, remaster, and extend its practices and debates. (See http://www.upne.com/0819571236.html for more information on the digital archive.)

Content: Cover a guide to Poetics Journal Title Copyright Contents How to Use This Guide Introduction Part I: Numbers 1-4 Close Reading: Leavings and Cleavings Writing and Method Forbidden Knowledge Language/Mind/Writing His Heart Is a Lute Held Up: Poe and Bataille The Rejection of Closure My Emily Dickinson: Part One Continuous Reframing Some Ways Philosophy Has Helped to Shape My Work Plotless Literature: Vasily Rozanov Migratory Meaning: The Parsimony Principle in the Poem The Politics of Style CONSTELLATION I: PRACTICES OF POETICS Part II: Numbers 5-7 Ugly. Total Equals What: Poetics and PraxisMainstream Marginality "Hey, Man, My Wave!": The Authority of Private Language Hypergraphy: A Note on Maurice Lemaître's Roman Hypergraphique Toy Boats Jameson's Perelman: Reification and the Material Signifier Good and Bad/Good and Evil: Pound, Céline, and Fascism Poets Theater: Two Versions of Collateral Kit Robinson: Raising Collateral Nick Robinson: Subtext in Collateral Leslie Scalapino, Pattern-and the 'Simulacral' Peter Seaton, An Example from the Literature Warren Sonbert, Narrative Concerns CONSTELLATION II: NEW METHODS AND TEXTS. Part III: Numbers 8-10Seeking a Sentence Can't We Just Call It Sex?: In Memory of David Wojnarowicz Arkadii Dragomoshchenko, I(s) Cold Heaven: The Uses of Monumentality Miscegenated Texts and Media Cyborgs: Technologies of Body and Soul "A Form of Assumptions" Time and Materials: The Workplace, Dreams, and Writing The Death of Lady Day What/Person: From an Exchange The Marks Are Waiting Thinking You Know Memory and Immorality in Musical Composition CONSTELLATION III: THE EXPANDED FIELD Acknowledgments and Permissions Indexes Contributor Index Keyword Index General Index. An anthology of key texts in contemporary poetics, Lyn Hejinian and Barrett Watten are internationally recognized poet/critics. Together they edited the influential Poetics Journal, whose ten issues, published between 1982 and 1998, contributed to the surge of interest in the practice of poetics. A Guide to Poetics Journal samples the major positions and debates from the journal, inviting readers to expand on their critical and creative perspectives. A substantial introduction, headnotes, and multiple indexes provide historical contexts and thematic links for each article. The Guide is intended for creative and classroom use, alone or in conjunction with the Poetics Journal Digital Archive (available separately). Book jacket An anthology of key texts in the development of contemporary poetics. The editors of this text have sought to showcase a range of innovative poetics and to indicate the diversity of fields and activities with which they might be engaged