ethics in experimental American poetry after 1945 /
First Statement of Responsibility
G. Matthew Jenkins
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Iowa City :
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University of Iowa Press,
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c2008
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xv, 263 p. ;
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25 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-258) and index
CONTENTS NOTE
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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 nearness of poetry: Susan Howe's The nonconformist's memorial -- Permeable ethics: Lyn Hejinian's The cell -- Conclusion: What difference does poetic obligation make?
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TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
American poetry-- 20th century-- History and criticism
Ethics in literature
Experimental poetry, American-- History and criticism