1 On the Presence of Absence

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I. Essays
5. 1 On the Presence of Absence 9
6. 2 “Blanco” and Transblanco 17
7. 3 Refiguring the Poundian Ideogram 30
8. 4 Poetry Makes Nothing Happen 41
9. 5 Haroldo de Campos, Octavio Paz, and the Experience of the Avant-Garde 55
10. 6 “Blanco” 62
11. 7 Translation and Radical Poetics 73
12. Part II. Remembrances
13. 8 Pages, Pageants, Portraits, Prospects 87
14. 9 “Logopéia via Goethe via Christopher Middleton” 94
15. 10 Meeting in Austin 104
16. Part III. Poems
17. 11 Three Variations on Octavio Paz’s “Blanco” and Fifteen Antiphonals for Haroldo de Campos, with a Note on Translation, Transcreation, and Othering 113
18. 12 Poems 122
19. 13 Waves of Absence 127
20. 14 Hexaemeron 131
21. 15 Amberianum (Philosophical Fragments of Caudio Amberian) 140
22. Acknowledgments 145
23. Notes 147
24. Bibliography 161
25. Notes on Contributors 167
26. Index 171