"A selection of papers presented at the "Postwar American Poetry" conference held at the University of Liège, March 3-5, 1999." - p.iii. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Readings. Mark Leahy -- Issues. Phenomenal poetics: reading Lyn Hejinian / Paul Hoover -- "And we must rise, act": postwar poetry and the aesthetics of power / Pierre Lagayette -- Roads less travelled: two paths out of modernism in post-war American poetry / Robert Archambeau -- 1973 / Peter Middleton -- The American avant-garde after 1989: notes toward a history / Steve Evans -- Margins of theory, theory of margins / Antoine Cazé -- The marginal arts: experimental poetry and the possibilities of prose / Michel Delville -- The poetics of poetry: can these bones live? / Maria Damon -- Poetry. From Analogies of Escape / Keith Waldrop -- From Split infinites / Rosmarie Waldrop -- Paul Hoover -- Maxine Chernoff -- Jennifer Moxley -- An &/or Peace Performance / H. Kassia Fleisher &/or Joe Amato -- Readings. Spectator and star: Frank O'Hara's Effects of 3-D emergence / Sarah Riggs -- Cultural mapping: Gary Snyder's Mountains and Rivers Without End as American epic / Nick Selby -- Public voices in American poetry: Robert Lowell and Bob Dylan / Astrid Franke -- Dylan goes electric: inventing a lyrical idiom for the postmodern distraction factory / Christophe Den Tandt -- "do it, and again do it": repetition, rereading, recognition in the poetry of Bruce Andrews / Mark Leahy -- Phenomenal poetics: reading Lyn Hejinian / Kornelia Freitag -- "Representations" of Peculiar Motions: Rosmarie Waldrop's Poethics / Frank J. Kearful -- "Dramatising the verse" or Versifying the drama: Rita Dove's The Darker Face of the Earth: a Verse Play / Valérie Bada -- "Representations" of Peculiar Motions: Rosmarie Waldrop's Poethics / Kornelia Freitag -- Contributors.
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