Poetics journal digital archive : with the copublication of A guide to Poetics journal

2369 Pages·2015·12.44 MB·English

by  Hejinian

Poetics Journal Digital Archive
Poetics Journal Digital Archive
with the copublication of A Guide to Poetics Journal
Edited by Lyn Hejinian and Barrett Watten
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY PRESS
Middletown, Connecticut
Wesleyan University Press Middletown CT 06459
www.wesleyan.edu/wespress
© 2014 Lyn Hejinian and Barrett Watten All rights reserved
Manufactured in the United States of America
Ebook ISBN 978-0-8195-7123-6
Publication of this book is funded by the Beatrice Fox Auerbach Foundation Fund at the Hartford
Foundation for Public Giving.
“Cover illustration: Marjorie Welish. Indecidability of the Sign: Frame 23, acrylic on panels,
2007, 18 × 28”.
publication of this book is funded by the
BEATRICE FOX AUERBACH FOUNDATION FUND
at the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving
Contents
How to Use This Archive xv
Kathy Acker 1
Ugly 3
Pierre Alferi, Seeking a Sentence 10
Michael Amnasan, The Eclipsing Function of Full Comprehension 19
Joe Liar, Chapter 4 25
Mike Anderson, Framing the Construals 38
Bruce Andrews, Total Equals What: Poetics and Praxis 46
Rae Armantrout, Chains 62
Mainstream Marginality 64
On “Pythagorean Silence” 68
The Person in My Work 71
Silence 73
Dennis Barone, A Note on John Smith and “Philadelphia Newspapers
Read Crossways” 78
John Smith, Philadelphia Newspapers Read Crossways 79
Susan [Laufer] Bee, Kahlo’s Gaze 85
Dodie Bellamy, Can’t We Just Call It Sex?: In Memory of David
Wojnarowicz 91
Days Without Someone 97
Franco Beltrametti, Normal Deep Person 107
David Benedetti, Fear of Poetic (Social) Knowledge: Why Some People
Don’t Like (Language) Poetry 108
Andrew Benjamin, The Body of Writing: Notes on the Poetry of Glenda
George 122
Steve Benson, Close Reading: Leavings and Cleavings 129
Mediations in an Emergency 137
Personal as Social History: Three Fictions 147
Steve Benson and Carla Harryman, Dialogue: Museo de antropología,
Mexico 155
Bill Berkson, Stick 164
Alan Bernheimer, The Simulacrum of Narrative 165
Charles Bernstein, Professing Stein / Stein Professing 168
Writing and Method 176
Richard Blevins, “The Single Intelligence”: The Formation of Robert
Creeley’s Epistemology 189
Bruce Boone, Kathy Acker’s “Great Expectations” 195
A Narrative Like a Punk Picture: Shocking Pinks, Lavenders, Magentas,
Sickly Greens 201
David Bromige, Alternatives of Exposition 206
Philosophy and Poetry: A Note 211
Carolyn Burke, Without Commas: Gertrude Stein and Mina Loy 217
Bruce Campbell, “But What Is an Adequate Vice to Limit the Liquid of
This Voice” 227
“Elsewhere”?: “Beyond” Artaud, “Beside” Barthes 247
cris cheek 253
Maxine Chernoff, The Fence of Character 258
Abigail Child, The Exhibit and the Circulation 261
Outside Topographies: Three Moments in Film 271
Abigail Child and Sally Silvers, Rewire / / Speak in Disagreement 275
William Corbett, Harwood / Walker and Raworth 283
Margaret Crane and John Winet, From “This Is Your Life” 290
Beverly Dahlen, Forbidden Knowledge 293
In Re “Person” 311
From “The Tradition of Marginality” 314
Daniel Davidson, Bureaucrat, my love. 317
Michael Davidson, Framed by Story 323
“Hey Man, My Wave!”: The Authority of Private Language 328
Poetics of Everyday Life 342
Seven Poems 346
Alan Davies, Close Reading Close Reading 354
Language/Mind/Writing 357
Motor Mouth 368
Or How Shall We Yet Catch Each Unmindful Eye Awake 370
Strong Language 374
Lydia Davis, Coolidge’s “Mine” 379
Some Notes on Armantrout’s “Precedence” 386
Jean Day, Moving Object 391
Ron Day, Form and the Dialogic 396
Françoise de Laroque, What Is the Sex of the Poets? 403
Jeff Derksen, North Of 413
Arkadii Dragomoshchenko, The Eroticism of Forgetting 420
I(s) 430
Syn opsis tax 441
Johanna Drucker, Close Reading: A Billboard 445
Hypergraphy: A Note on Maurice Lemaître’s “Roman
hypergraphique” 449
Women and Language 458
Mikhail Dziubenko, “New Poetry” and Perspectives for Philology 472
Jerry Estrin, Cold Heaven: The Uses of Monumentality 481
Penultimate Witness: The Work of Emmanuel Hocquard 489
Steve Evans, Gizzi’s “No Both” 496
Steven Farmer [Roberts], Reading Eye Lets 500
Norman Finkelstein, The Problem of the Self in Recent American
Poetry 505
Norman Fischer, Corbett’s “Collected Poems” and Dahlen’s “A
Reading” 514
Modernism, Postmodernism, and Values 520
The Old City 523
The Poetics of Lived Experience and the Concept of the Person 528
Allen Fisher, Poetics, Philosophy, and Difference 532
Postmodernism as Package 535
Connie Fitzsimons, The Oath 542
Kathleen Fraser, Overheard 544
Howard Fried, The Museum Reaction Piece 553
Benjamin Friedlander, Laura Riding / Some Difficulties 561
Lyrical Interference 570