Poetry & Pedagogy: The Challenge of the Contemporary

This anthology is a new reading of the contemporary poetries. The collection gathers together the work of a number of scholars, poets, and teachers on the challenges and productive possibilities that arise when teaching contemporary writing today. Front Matter....Pages i-xiii Introduction....Pages 1-10 Front Matter....Pages 11-12 “Isn’t the Avant-garde Always Pedagogical”: Experimental Poetics and/as Pedagogy....Pages 13-29 FFFFFalling with Poetry: The Centrifugal Classroom....Pages 30-38 Reading for Affect in the Lyric: From Modern to Contemporary....Pages 39-62 )Writing Writing(....Pages 63-79 New World Studies and the Limits of National Literatures....Pages 80-104 Beyond Rainbows: What Hawai‘i’s “Local” Poetry Has Taught Me about Pedagogy....Pages 105-125 Front Matter....Pages 127-128 Post-Literary Poetry, Counterperformance, and Micropoetries....Pages 129-147 The Difficult Poem....Pages 148-150 Deformance and Interpretation....Pages 151-180 Performance as Critical Practice: Nourbese Philip’s “Discourse on the Logic of Language”....Pages 181-193 The Didactic: Learning at Goethe’s Knee....Pages 194-204 Stages of Encounter with a Difficult Text....Pages 205-212 “My Susan Howe” or “Howe to Teach”....Pages 213-223 Gumshoe Poetry....Pages 224-233 Giving Beginning Adult Language Learners a Voice: A Case for Poetry in the Foreign Language Classroom....Pages 234-238 Sex Dolls, Mice, and Mother’s Suitcase....Pages 239-250 Creative Wreading: A Primer....Pages 251-259 Front Matter....Pages 260-274 Between Jihad and McWorld: A Place for Poetry....Pages 275-281 He Has More Than One Ear....Pages 127-128 Notes toward Exploding “Exploding Text: Poetry Performance”....Pages 282-292 Back Matter....Pages 293-294 ....Pages 295-298