Contemporary Literature

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E
5. In Unum Pluribus 3
6. You Can’t Evict an Idea 13
7. Sounding the Word 29
8. This Picture Intentionally Left Blank 34
9. Disfiguring Abstraction 48
10. The Expanded Field of L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E 60
11. Coda: Enough! 78
12. Pitch
13. Gertrude Stein 83
14. Louis Zukofsky 100
15. Charles Olson 110
16. Paul Celan’s Folds and Veils 113
17. Barbara Guest 120
18. Jackson Mac Low 123
19. Robin Blaser’s Holy Forest 128
20. Robert Creeley 131
21. Larry Eigner’s Endless Song 137
22. John Ashbery 147
23. Hannah Weiner’s Medium 154
24. Haroldo de Campos Thou Art Translated (Knot) 157
25. Jerome Rothenberg 162
26. “And autumnstruck we would not hear the song” 168
27. Leslie Scalapino’s Rhythmic Intensities 174
28. Maggie O’Sullivan 177
29. III. Echopoetics
30. Contemporary Literature 187
31. Musica Falsa 203
32. Foreign Literature Studies 211
33. The Humanities at Work 222
34. Bomb 227
35. Chicago Weekly 238
36. FSG Poetry 248
37. Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses 251
38. Études anglaises 258
39. Evening Will Come 274
40. Wolf 276
41. IV. Bent Studies
42. The Pataquerical Imagination 293
43. Pataquericals & Poetics 345