Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Part 1. Emerging from the Night of the Word
5. 1 An Introduction to the Survivor: New Contexts for Genocide 1
6. 2 Pain- Laden Rhymes: Challenges to Narrative and the Radical “Writing I” 30
7. 3 Openings of the Field: Deep Memory and Its Counterwords 72
8. Part 2. The End of the End of Ideology
9. 4 Absurd Judgment: Auden, Arendt, Eichmann, and the Kafka Revival 93
10. 5 Oppose the Anti- Everything: Zero Art and the Hopeful Leap 112
11. 6 Adjustment and Its Discontents: Aleatory Art vs. Cold War Deradicalization 131
12. 7 Disaster Defies Utterance: Arts of the Unsayable 164
13. 8 Thaw Poetics: Folk Revival, Radical Unoriginality, and the Old Word Witness 189
14. 9 Abomunism: Wars Within Wars in American Poetry 217
15. 10 Favorite Things 240
16. Notes 279
17. Index 321