Poetics journal digital archive : with the copublication of A guide to Poetics journal

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. This digital archive of the complete Poetics Journal allows users to remix, remaster, and extend its practices and debates. A Guide to Poetics Journal is also available, and 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. Cover 1 Poetics Journal Digital Archive 2 Title 4 Copyright 5 Contents 8 Kathy Acker 20 Ugly 22 Seeking a Sentence 29 The Eclipsing Function of Full Comprehension 38 Joe Liar, Chapter 4 44 Framing the Construals 57 Total Equals What: Poetics and Praxis 65 Chains 81 Mainstream Marginality 83 On “Pythagorean Silence” 87 The Person in My Work 90 Silence 92 A Note on John Smith and “Philadelphia Newspapers Read Crossways” 97 Philadelphia Newspapers Read Crossways 98 Kahlo’s Gaze 104 Can’t We Just Call It Sex?: In Memory of David Wojnarowicz 110 Days Without Someone 116 Normal Deep Person 126 Fear of Poetic (Social) Knowledge: Why Some People Don’t Like (Language) Poetry 127 The Body of Writing: Notes on the Poetry of Glenda George 141 Close Reading: Leavings and Cleavings 148 Mediations in an Emergency 156 Personal as Social History: Three Fictions 166 Dialogue: Museo de antropología, Mexico 174 Stick 183 The Simulacrum of Narrative 184 Professing Stein / Stein Professing 187 Writing and Method 195 “The Single Intelligence”: The Formation of Robert Creeley’s Epistemology 208 Kathy Acker’s “Great Expectations” 214 A Narrative Like a Punk Picture: Shocking Pinks, Lavenders, Magentas, Sickly Greens 220 Alternatives of Exposition 225 Philosophy and Poetry: A Note 230 Without Commas: Gertrude Stein and Mina Loy 236 “But What Is an Adequate Vice to Limit the Liquid of This Voice” 246 “Elsewhere”?: “Beyond” Artaud, “Beside” Barthes 266 cris cheek 272 The Fence of Character 277 The Exhibit and the Circulation 280 Outside Topographies: Three Moments in Film 290 Rewire / / Speak in Disagreement 294 Harwood / Walker and Raworth 302 From “This Is Your Life” 309 Forbidden Knowledge 312 In Re “Person” 330 From “The Tradition of Marginality” 333 Bureaucrat, my love. 336 Framed by Story 342 “Hey Man, My Wave!”: The Authority of Private Language 347 Poetics of Everyday Life 361 Seven Poems 365 Close Reading Close Reading 373 Language/Mind/Writing 376 Motor Mouth 387 Or How Shall We Yet Catch Each Unmindful Eye Awake 389 Strong Language 393 Coolidge’s “Mine” 398 Some Notes on Armantrout’s “Precedence” 405 Moving Object 410 Form and the Dialogic 415 What Is the Sex of the Poets? 422 North Of 432 The Eroticism of Forgetting 439 I(s) 449 Syn / opsis / tax 460 Close Reading: A Billboard 464 Hypergraphy: A Note on Maurice Lemaître’s “Roman hypergraphique” 468 Women and Language 477 “New Poetry” and Perspectives for Philology 491 Cold Heaven: The Uses of Monumentality 500 Penultimate Witness: The Work of Emmanuel Hocquard 508 Gizzi’s “No Both” 515 Reading Eye Lets 519 The Problem of the Self in Recent American Poetry 524 Corbett’s “Collected Poems” and Dahlen’s “A Reading” 533 Modernism, Postmodernism, and Values 539 The Old City 542 The Poetics of Lived Experience and the Concept of the Person 547 Poetics, Philosophy, and Difference 551 Postmodernism as Package 554 The Oath 561 Overheard 563 The Museum Reaction Piece 572 Laura Riding / Some Difficulties 580 Lyrical Interference 589 How “Space Stations” Gets Written 601 Helter Skelter 620 From “Some Strokes” 624 Baucis and Philemon 625 Fame 628 His Heart Is a Lute Held Up: Poe and Bataille 633 Truth’s Mirror Is No Mirror 640 Georges Perec: Life Directions for Use 646 Five Poems 652 Literate Tones: The Recent Poetry of John Wilkinson 656 Elsewhere 662 Language, Consciousness, and Society 663 Text for the Russians 674 Shifting Persona 676 Forgotten Tyrant 680 Toy Boats 684 What in Fact Was Originally Improvised 687 Interview with Carla Harryman 692 Dialogue: Museo de antropología, Mexico 693 Althusser Metonymy China Wall 694 Jameson’s Perelman: Reification and the Material Signifier 704 An American Opener 717 La Faustienne 723 Hard Hearts 745 The Person and Description 753 The Rejection of Closure 758 Strangeness 769 From “The Cape of Good Hope” 784 Domination: Public and Private Language 787 Purgatory: All from Nothing 793 Silliman’s “Paradise” 796 My Emily Dickinson: Part One 798 Robert Creeley and the Politics of the Person 815 Beginning at “Bottom” 824 For a Biography of the Redeemed: 1974–1976 829 Ideas of Order 832 The Tormentor of Life 836 Continuous Reframing 848 The Public Aspect of the Language of Love 854 Folklore and “Novoyaz” 863 Limits of the Language of Desire 874 From “Intermusement” 884 Astrophysics and You 887 “Persia” / “Sixteen” / “Code Poems” 890 Pieces o’ Six—XII and XXIII 901 Sketch Toward a Close Reading of Three Poems from Bob Perelman’s “Primer” 909 Some Ways Philosophy Has Helped to Shape My Work 912 Codes/Texts: Reading “S/Z” 918 And Who Remembers Bobby Sands 925 The. 930 From the Empty Quarter 931 Remaking Narrative 934 The Knowledge of Narratives 945 The Modern Lyric 952 Sex and Language 960 Miscegenated Texts and Media Cyborgs: Technologies of Body and Soul 969 The Multicultural Aesthetic: Language, “Art,” and Politics in the United States Today 978 Poetry and Experience 989 Narrative 994 From variously, not then 995 Robin Palanker 998 Alexei Parshchikov, New Poetry 1003 Ted Pearson, The Force of Even Intervals: Toward a Reading of “Vernal Aspects” 1010 “A Form of Assumptions” 1013 Some Remarks on Method 1020 Things Made Known 1023 Unit Structures 1034 Bob Perelman, Exchangeable Frames 1038 Good and Bad / Good and Evil: Pound, Céline, and Fascism 1049 Plotless Prose 1073 Three Case Histories: Ross’s “Failure of Modernism” 1084 Delphine Perret, Irony 1093 Claire Phillips, Violent Acts Within Public Discourse 1108 Nick Piombino, Towards an Experiential Syntax 1110 David Plotke, Language and Politics Today 1123 Harry Polkinhorn, The Failure of a Postmodern Aesthetic 1139 Larry Price, Aggressively Private: Contingency as Explanation 1148 The Contingency Caper 1156 Harryman’s Balzac 1174 Conceptualism and the West 1180 Poetic Rests: Ashbery, Coolidge, Scalapino 1185 Of Persons as Persons 1197 What Will Postmodernity Be? 1201 On Rothenberg’s Revised “Technicians of the Sacred” 1204 Rodefer’s “Lectures” 1211 What Does This Do with You Reading? 1216 How to Reading 1219 Blue Notes on the Know Ledge 1225 Bob Cobbing’s Blade 1244 Hayward 1252 Pleasanton and Embassy Suite 1256 Raising “Collateral” 1263 Time and Materials: The Workplace, Dreams, and Writing 1267 Subtext in “Collateral” 1284 Openings—The Connection Direct: Personal Notes on Poetics 1292 The Death of Lady Day 1301 The Oxygen of Publicity 1311 Poems as Holograms 1323 Momma Was Washing the Window Frame 1334 Two Poems 1337 Aaron Shurin’s “Elsewhere” 1342 Pattern—and the ‘Simulacral’ 1344 Poetic Diaries 1355 Re-Living 1367 War / Poverty / Writing 1370 What/Person: From an Exchange 1380 Antin’s “Tuning” 1400 An Example from the Literature 1408 From “Roxy” 1414 Language Acquisition as Poetics: Notes on New Educational Writing 1423 Dreyer’s “Step Work” 1430 Plotless Literature: Vasily Rozanov 1433 As Known 1456 The Irruptive Text 1457 Orphée: The Kiss of Death 1462 Composition as Action 1465 The Dysfunction of Criticism: Poets and the Critical Tradition of the Anti-Academy 1470 Migratory Meaning: The Parsimony Principle in the Poem 1488 “Postmodernism”: Sign for a Struggle, the Struggle for the Sign 1507 Bernstein’s “Content’s Dream” 1534 CIA Sentences 1542 Narrative Concerns 1551 Exile out of Silence into Cunning: Being Notes on Elsewhere and the Myths of Presence 1555 Télégrammes: Recent Quebécois Writing 1562 denis aubin, fuzzyworld 1562 Claude Beausoleil, On the Edge of the Infinite 1562 Nicole Brossard, Like Number in the Distance 1563 Paul Chamberland 1564 François Charron, The World as Obstacle 1565 Michael Delisle, From “Vast Illuminations” 1565 michel gay, detachment 1566 André Gervais 1567 Philippe Haeck, Space Is Life 1567 Renaud Longchamps, The Scale of Beings 1568 France Mongeau, there then. 1569 André Roy, The Surrealist on the Prowl 1570 Claude Beausoleil, Modernities 1571 My Work Telling the Story of Narrative in It 1573 The Marks Are Waiting 1581 Early Morning Prompts for Evening Takes: Or, Roll ’em! 1584 Very Similitude 1587 Dead Letters: (6–12) 25 Dead Letters: (6–12) 1592 Interview with Carla Harryman 1596 Sound on Silence 1609 The Narration 1613 The Literature of Surface 1615 Missing “X”: Formal Meaning in Crane and Eigner 1619 On Explanation: Art and the Language of “Art-Language” 1637 The Politics of Style 1647 Robert Creeley and “The Person” 1660 Social Space in “Direct Address” 1665 What I See in “How I Became Hettie Jones” 1675 The XYZ of Reading: Negativity (&) 1704 Other Person 1707 Postmodernism and Music: The Reaches 1708 Postmodern Means to Me That Modern Must Have Been a Very Important Movement 1717 Thinking You Know 1718 The Maze System 1733 Memory and Immorality in Musical Composition 1736 Feminism and Formalism 1741 Poetics Journal Covers 1746 Acknowledgments and Permissions 1752 Contributor Index 1760 Volume Index 1768 Keyword Index 1780 Content: Cover Title Page Copyright Contents How to Use This Archive Kathy Acker Ugly Pierre Alferi, Seeking a Sentence Michael Amnasan, The Eclipsing Function of Full Comprehension Joe Liar, Chapter 4 Mike Anderson, Framing the Construals Bruce Andrews, Total Equals What: Poetics and Praxis Rae Armantrout, Chains Mainstream Marginality On "Pythagorean Silence" The Person in My Work Silence Dennis Barone, A Note on John Smith and "Philadelphia Newspapers Read Crossways" John Smith, Philadelphia Newspapers Read Crossways Susan [Laufer] Bee, Kahlo's Gaze. Dodie Bellamy, Can't We Just Call It Sex?: In Memory of David WojnarowiczDays Without Someone Franco Beltrametti, Normal Deep Person David Benedetti, Fear of Poetic (Social) Knowledge: Why Some People Don't Like (Language) Poetry Andrew Benjamin, The Body of Writing: Notes on the Poetry of Glenda George Steve Benson, Close Reading: Leavings and Cleavings Mediations in an Emergency Personal as Social History: Three Fictions Steve Benson and Carla Harryman, Dialogue: Museo de antropología, Mexico Bill Berkson, Stick Alan Bernheimer, The Simulacrum of Narrative. Charles Bernstein, Professing Stein / Stein ProfessingWriting and Method Richard Blevins, "The Single Intelligence": The Formation of Robert Creeley's Epistemology Bruce Boone, Kathy Acker's "Great Expectations" A Narrative Like a Punk Picture: Shocking Pinks, Lavenders, Magentas, Sickly Greens David Bromige, Alternatives of Exposition Philosophy and Poetry: A Note Carolyn Burke, Without Commas: Gertrude Stein and Mina Loy Bruce Campbell, "But What Is an Adequate Vice to Limit the Liquid of This Voice" "Elsewhere"?: "Beyond" Artaud, "Beside" Barthes cris cheek. Maxine Chernoff, The Fence of CharacterAbigail Child, The Exhibit and the Circulation Outside Topographies: Three Moments in Film Abigail Child and Sally Silvers, Rewire / / Speak in Disagreement William Corbett, Harwood / Walker and Raworth Margaret Crane and John Winet, From "This Is Your Life" Beverly Dahlen, Forbidden Knowledge In Re "Person" From "The Tradition of Marginality" Daniel Davidson, Bureaucrat, my love. Michael Davidson, Framed by Story "Hey Man, My Wave!": The Authority of Private Language Poetics of Everyday Life Seven Poems. Alan Davies, Close Reading Close ReadingLanguage/Mind/Writing Motor Mouth Or How Shall We Yet Catch Each Unmindful Eye Awake Strong Language Lydia Davis, Coolidge's "Mine" Some Notes on Armantrout's "Precedence" Jean Day, Moving Object Ron Day, Form and the Dialogic Françoise de Laroque, What Is the Sex of the Poets? Jeff Derksen, North Of Arkadii Dragomoshchenko, The Eroticism of Forgetting I(s) Syn / opsis / tax Johanna Drucker, Close Reading: A Billboard Hypergraphy: A Note on Maurice Lemaître's "Roman hypergraphique" Women and Language. <P>The highly influential Poetics Journal, whose ten issues were published between 1982 and 1998, contributed to the surge of interest in the practice of poetics. Edited by internationally recognized poet/critics Lyn Hejinian and Barrett Watten, the journal presents major conversations and debates, and invites readers to expand on the critical and creative engagements they represent. This archive re-presents virtually all the articles originally published in Poetics Journal, organized alphabetically by author and in searchable form. It features indexes by contributors, keywords, and volume.</P><P>The writing that appeared in Poetics Journal reflects the development of a range of creative and critical approaches in avant-garde poetry and art over two decades. In making this content newly available, the editors hope to preserve the generative enthusiasm for innovative writing and art it represents, while encouraging new uses and contexts.</P><P>A Guide to Poetics Journal is also available, see http://www.upne.com/0819571205.html for more information.</P> The highly influential Poetics Journal, whose ten issues were published between 1982 and 1998, contributed to the surge of interest in the practice of poetics. Edited by internationally recognized poet/critics Lyn Hejinian and Barrett Watten, the journal presents major conversations and debates, and invites readers to expand on the critical and creative engagements they represent. This archive re-presents virtually all the articles originally published in Poetics Journal, organized alphabetically by author and in searchable form. It features indexes by contributors, keywords, and volume. The writing that appeared in Poetics Journal reflects the development of a range of creative and critical approaches in avant-garde poetry and art over two decades. In making this content newly available, the editors hope to preserve the generative enthusiasm for innovative writing and art it represents, while encouraging new uses and contexts