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03846aam a22004338i 4500 001 A2EC260ED7AA11EAACEF483997128E48 003 SILO 005 20200806010102 008 191010s2020 iau b s001 0 eng 010 $a 2019036763 020 $a 1609386892 020 $a 9781609386894 035 $a (OCoLC)1130764872 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d OCLCF $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a PS309.D63 $b L46 2020 082 00 $a 811/.050906 $2 23 100 1 $a Leong, Michael, $d 1978- $e author. 245 10 $a Contested records : $b the turn to documents in contemporary North American poetry / $c by Michael Leong. 263 $a 2003 264 1 $a Iowa City : $b University of Iowa Press, $c 2020. 300 $a x, 268 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 23 cm 490 0 $a Contemporary North American poetry series 520 $a "Why have so many contemporary poets turned to source material, from newspapers to governmental records, as inspiration for their poetry? How can citational poems offer a means of social engagement? What are the advantages and perils of appropriating text? Synthesizing research in cultural memory studies, art history, public sphere theory, and the history of the humanities, Michael Leong answers such questions as he argues that poems driven by the remixing and reframing of found texts powerfully engage with the collective ways we remember, forget, and remember again. Going well beyond Wordsworthian recollections in tranquility, authors of such research-driven and mnemotechnic work use previous inscriptions as a springboard into public intellectualism This is the first book-length study to examine conceptual writing and documentary poetry under the same cover, showing how diverse writers associated with different poetry communities have a common interest in documentation. Putting into provocative conversation writers such as Amiri Baraka, Kenneth Goldsmith, R.B. Kitaj, Mark Nowak, M. NourbeSe Philip, Vanessa Place, and Claudia Rankine, Leong analyzes a range of twenty-first-century poems that have been reviled, celebrated, or in some cases met with equally telling indifference. In doing so, Leong offers nuanced and non-polemical treatments of some of the most controversial debates about race and ethnicity in twenty-first century literary culture. Situating his objects of study within the wider context of the humanities, Leong's Extending the Document in Contemporary North American Poetry suggests nothing less than a continual extension of our conceptions of poetry"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: documental poetics -- "It matters what you call a thing": documentary, investigative, conceptual, documental -- Documentation, paranoia, and aspiration: on Amiri Baraka and R.B. Kitaj -- "Work itself is given a voice": labor, deskilling, and reskilling in Kenneth Goldsmith and Mark Nowak -- The fate of late conceptualism -- Meta-publicity and the public sphere: on Claudia Rankine and Kenneth Goldsmith -- Afterword: whither poetry? 650 0 $a Documentary poetry, American $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a American poetry $y 20th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a American poetry $y 21st century $x History and criticism. 650 7 $a American poetry. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00807348 648 7 $a 1900-2099 $2 fast 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 776 08 $i Online version: $a Leong, Michael, 1978- $t Contested records. $d Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 2020 $z 9781609386900 $w (DLC) 2019036764 941 $a 2 952 $l USUX851 $d 20220802020204.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220317015850.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=A2EC260ED7AA11EAACEF483997128E48 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search