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03336aam a2200361 i 4500 001 D03D0D28141211EF8F56A7732FECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240517010047 008 230621s2024 alua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2023017160 020 $a 0817361006 020 $a 9780817361006 035 $a (OCoLC)1371749232 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d ALM $d OCLCO $d YDX $d AUM $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PN1042 $b .G65 2024 082 00 $a 808.1 $2 23/eng/20230621 100 1 $a Golston, Michael, $e author. 245 14 $a The science fiction of poetics and the avant-garde imagination / $c Michael Golston. 264 1 $a Tuscaloosa : $b The University of Alabama Press, $c [2024] 300 $a 243 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 23 cm. 490 1 $a Modern and contemporary poetics 520 $a "This insightful, playful monograph from Golston does exactly what it advertises: modeling poetics based on how poetry (and some parallel artistic endeavors) has filtered through a century-plus of science fiction. This is not a book about science fiction in and of itself, but it is a book about the resonances of science-fiction tropes and ideas in poetic language. The germ of Golston's project is a throwaway line in Robert Smithson's Entropy and the New Monuments about how cinema supplanted nature as inspiration for many of his fellow artists: "The movies give a ritual pattern to the lives of many artists, and this induces a kind of 'low budget' mysticism, which keeps them in a perpetual trance." Golston charts how the demotic appeal of sci-fi, much like that of the B-movie, cross-pollinated into poetry and other branches of the avant garde. Golston creates what he calls a "regular Rube Goldberg machine" of a critical apparatus, drawing on Walter Benjamin, Roman Jakobson, and Gilles Deleuze. He starts by acknowledging that, per the important work of Darko Suvin to situate science fiction critically, the genre is premised on cognitive estrangement. But he is not interested in the specific nuts and bolts of science fiction as it exists but rather how science fiction has created a model not only for other poets but also for musicians and landscape artists. Golston's critical lens moves around quite a bit, but he begins with familiar enough subjects: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Mina Loy, William S. Burroughs. From there he moves into more "alien" terrain: Ed Dorn's long poem Gunslinger, the discombobulated work of Clark Coolidge. Sun Ra, Ornette Coleman, and Jimi Hendrix all come under consideration. The result of Golston's restless, rich scholarship is the first substantial monograph on science fiction and avant-garde poetics, using Russian Formalism, Frankfurt School dialectics, and Deleuzian theory to show how the avant-garde inherently follows the parameters of sci fi, in both theme and form"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 650 0 $a Poetics. 650 0 $a Experimental poetry. 650 0 $a Science fiction $x Influence. 650 7 $a Experimental poetry $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00918461 650 7 $a Poetics $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01067682 830 0 $a Modern and contemporary poetics 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20240517010412.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=D03D0D28141211EF8F56A7732FECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search