Intro; Acknowledgments; Praise for Communism and Poetry; Contents; Contributors; Chapter 1: Introduction; Communist Projects and Poetics; The Present Conjuncture; First Coordinate: Eventfulness; Second Coordinate: Anti-Capitalism and Uneven Development; Third Coordinate: Poetry After Modernism; Chapter 2: The Other Minimal Demand; Chapter 3: The Relation Between Poetry and Poems Is Political, Sometimes; Chapter 4: "Everywhere, Worlds Connect": Realist Poetics and the Ecologies of Capitalism; Some Versions of Totality; Animal Globes and Landfills; Coda: Capitalocene Poetics
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24 / The Torture25 / "Where Have They Been?"; 27 / Under Duress; Index
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Chapter 5: "The Changing Same": Value in Marx and Amiri Baraka1; 2; 3; 4; Chapter 6: Mayakovsky at Mirafori: Operaismo and the Negation of Poetry; Chapter 7: Sean Bonney: Poet Out of Time; A Fissure in the Alphabet; The Living and the Dead; Poetry, Struggle, and Defeat; The Countertime of Struggle; In the Wake; Chapter 8: Notes on Poetry and Communism: Abolition, Solidarity, Love; Chapter 9: "Wide as Targes Let Them Be," or, How a Poem Is a Barricade; Chapter 10: "A Whole New Set of Stars": Poetics and Revolutionary Consciousness; Langston Hughes: Assembling Anti-Imperialism
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Kenneth Fearing: Cosmic Communism, or Stretching the FigureGwendolyn Brooks: The Riot Cannot Complete Itself and It Finds Its Ends in Love; Poetry as Political Laboratory: Keston Sutherland's Structures of Feeling; "A Whole New Set of Stars": Sean Bonney and Revolutionary Time; Chapter 11: Free Dissociation/Logic; Chapter 12: Just Come Now; Appendix: From Our Death; Razor Psalm; Separation; 4 / A Butcher's Lullaby; 6 / On Throwing Bricks; 10 / A Reference to the Voices; 12 / What Teargas Is For; Terror; 19 / Anywhere Out of the World; 22 / Georg Trakl's Psalm; 23 / "We Are The Dead."
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Communism and Poetry: Writing Against Capital addresses the relationship between an upsurge in collective political practice around the world since 2000, and the crystallization of newly engaged forms of poetry. Considering an array of perspectives--poets, poet-critics, activists and theorists--these essays shed new light on the active interface between emancipatory political thought and poetic production and explore how poetry and the new communism are creating mutually innovative forms of thought and activity, supercharging the utopian imagination. Drawing inspiration from past connections between communism and poetry, and theorizing new directions over the years ahead, the volume models a much-needed critical solidarity with creative strategies in the present conjuncture to activate movements of resistance, on the streets and in verse.