Poetic obligation : ethics in experimental American poetry after 1945 / G. Matthew Jenkins.

Author/creator Jenkins, Grant Matthew
Format Book
Publication InfoIowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2008.
Descriptionxv, 263 pages ; 25 cm
Subjects

Contents Introduction: The double-double turn -- pt. 1. Objectivist poethics -- Saying obligations: George Oppen's Of being numerous -- A phenomenology of judgment: Charles Reznikoff's Holocaust -- pt. 2. Excess and eros. The ethics of excess: Edward Dorn's Gunslinger -- The body ethical: Robert Duncan's Passages -- pt. 3. An ethics of sexual alterity. The nearnes sof poetry: Susan Howe's The nonconformist's memorial -- Permeable ethics: Lyn Hejinian's The cell -- Conclusion: What difference does poetic obligation make?
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [243]-258) and index.
LCCN 2007907339
ISBN9781587296352
ISBN1587296357

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Joyner General Stacks PS 323.5 .J46 2008 ✔ Available Place Hold