Research Catalog

Title

We who love to be astonished : experimental women's writing and performance poetics / edited by Laura Hinton and Cynthia Hogue.

Publication

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2002.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Hinton, Laura.
• Hogue, Cynthia.

Description

xii, 308 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Modern and contemporary poetics

Subject

• American literature > Women authors > History and criticism
• Women and literature > United States > History > 20th century
• American literature > 20th century > History and criticism
• Experimental fiction, American > History and criticism
• Experimental poetry, American > History and criticism
• Postmodernism (Literature) > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-282) and index.

Contents

Introduction: oppositions and astonishing continguities / by Laura Hinton and Cynthia Hogue -- Part I. Formal thresholds -- "A poetics of emerging evidence": experiment in Kathleen Fraser's poetry / by Eileen Gregory -- Asterisk: separation at the threshold of meaning in the poetry of Rae Armantrout / by Ron Silliman -- Alice Notley's experimental epic: "an ecstasy of finding another way of being" / by Susan McCabe -- Intimacy and experiment in Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge's Empathy / by Charles Altieri -- Part II. In the margins of form -- Towards a new politics of representation? absence and desire in Denise Chávez's The last of the menu girls / by AnaLouise Keating -- Beyond the frame of whiteness: Harryette Mullen's revisionary border work / by Cynthia Hogue -- Untranslatable communities, productive translation, and public transport: Rosmarie Waldrop's A key into the language of America and Joy Harjo's The woman who fell from the sky / by Jonathan Monroe -- "Nothing, for a woman, is worth trying": a key into the rules of Rosmarie Waldrop's experimentalism / by Lynn Keller -- Rules and restraints in women's experimental writing / by Carla Harryman -- Part III. The visual referent/visual page -- Im.age ... dis.solve: the linguistic image in the critical lyric of Norma Cole and Ann Lauterbach / by Charles Borkhuis -- Postmodern romance and the descriptive fetish of vision in Fanny Howe's The lives of a spirit and Lyn Hejinian's My life / by Laura Hinton -- "Drawings with words": Susan Howe's visual poetics / by Alan Golding -- "Bodies written off": economies of race and gender in the visual/verbal collaborative clash of Erica Hunt's and Alison Saar's Arcade / by Linda A. Kinnahan -- Part IV. Performative bodies -- "In another tongue": body, image, text in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictée / by Elisabeth A. Frost -- Painful bodies: Kathy Acker's last texts / by Nicole Cooley -- "Eyes in all heads": Anne Waldman's performance of bigendered imagination in Iovis 1 / by Heather Thomas -- "Sonic revolutionaries": voice and experiment in the spoken-word poetry of Tracie Morris / by Kathleen Crown -- Capillary currents: Jayne Cortez / by Aldon Lynn Nielsen -- Afterword: "Draft 48: being astonished" / by Rachel Blau DuPlessis.

Call Number

JFE 02-4323

ISBN

• 0817310940 (alk. paper)
• 0817310959 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2001002381

OCLC

46822251

Title

We who love to be astonished : experimental women's writing and performance poetics / edited by Laura Hinton and Cynthia Hogue.

Imprint

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2002.

Series

Modern and contemporary poetics

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-282) and index.

Added Author

Hinton, Laura.

Hogue, Cynthia.

Research Call Number

JFE 02-4323