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  • American Poetry as Transactional Art

    by Stephen Fredman ...
    Series series Modern and Contemporary Poetics
    Explores the ways American poetry engages with visual art, music, fiction, spirituality, and performance artMany people think of poetry as a hermetic art, as though poets wrote only about themselves or as if the subject of poetry were finally only poetry—its forms and traditions. Indeed much of what constitutes poetry in the lyric tradition depends on a stringently controlled point of view and ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The Poetry and Poetics of Michael Heller

    A Nomad Memory

    by Hélène Aji, Norman Finkelstein, Stephen Fredman, Eric Hoffman, Romana Huk, Elisabeth Joyce, Henry Weinfield, Tyrone Williams, David Herd ...
    The Poetry and Poetics of Michael Heller: A Nomad Memory is the first comprehensive treatment of a singularly important American poet of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Michael Heller (b. 1937) has amassed a body of poetry and criticism that places him in the vanguard of modern literature, and this essay collection provides the first extensive critical treatment of his varied career. ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • How Long Is the Present

    Selected Talk Poems of David Antin

    by David Antin ...
    Series series Recencies Series: Research and Recovery in Twentieth-Century American Poetics
    Poet, performance artist, and critic David Antin invented the “talk poem.” He insists that his poems be oral and created in front of a live audience, in a specific time and place, with the transcription of the performance adjusted for print by presenting it not in prose but in clumps of words without justified margins or punctuation, peppered with white spaces that indicate pauses.In this book, ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • The Objectivist Nexus

    Essays in Cultural Poetics

    by Eric Homberger, Alan Golding, Charles Altieri, Yves di Manno, Charles Bernstein, John Seed, Michael Heller, Norman Finkelstein, Peter Nichols, Robert Franciosi, Andrew Crozier, Stephen Fredman, Ming-Qian Ma, Professor Peter Middleton, Professor Burton Hatlen ...
    Series series Modern and Contemporary Poetics
    "Objectivist" writers, conjoined through a variety of personal, ideological, and literary-historical links, have, from the late 1920s to the present, attracted emulation and suspicion. Representing a nonsymbolist, postimagist poetics and characterized by a historical, realist, antimythological worldview, Objectivists have retained their outsider status. Despite such status, however, the formal, ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

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  • An Incomplete Education

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  • What We See When We Read

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    **A gorgeously unique, fully illustrated exploration into the phenomenology of reading—how we visualize images from reading works of literature, from one of our very best book jacket designers, himself a passionate reader.“A playful, illustrated treatise on how words give rise to mental images.” —The New York Times**What do we see when we read? Did Tolstoy really describe Anna Karenina? Did ... Read more

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  • Changing My Mind

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  • Stop Me If You've Heard This: A History and Philosophy of Jokes

    A History and Philosophy of Jokes

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  • There Is Simply Too Much to Think About

    Collected Nonfiction

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  • Collected Prose

    by Paul Auster ...
    The expanded edition of an essential collection of writings, essays, and interviews from Paul Auster, one of the finest thinkers and stylists in contemporary letters.The celebrated author of The New York Trilogy, The Book of Illusions, and 4 3 2 1 presents here a highly personal collection of essays, prefaces, true stories, autobiographical writings, and collaborations with artists, as well as ... Read more

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