Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgements ix
5. Preface x
6. Introduction: Reading Experimental Writing 1
7. Contributors 1
8. 1. ‘Fog is My Land’: A Citizenship of Mutual Estrangement in the Painted Books of Etel Adnan 15
9. 2. Reading Happily with John Cage, Lyn Hejinian and Others 51
10. 3. Experiment, Inscription and the Archive: Kathy Acker’s Manuscript Practice 74
11. 4. Rereading Race and Commodity Form in Erica Hunt’s Piece Logic 99
12. 5. Contemporary Experimental Translations and Translingual Poetics 123
13. 6. On Joan Retallack’s Memnoir: Investigating ‘the Experience of Experiencing’ 145
14. 7. A Queer Response to Caroline Bergvall’s Hyphenated Practice: Towards an Interdependent Model of Reading 163
15. 8. Reading Language Art in Digital Media: Reconfi gurations of Experimental Practices 185
16. 9. Charles Bernstein’s Walter Benjamin, Among Other Things 205
17. Notes on Contributors 227
18. Bibliography 231
19. Index 251