- Description
- 1 online resource (xi,364 pages)
- Summary
- "Attention Equals Life examines why a quest to pay attention to daily life has increasingly become a central feature of both contemporary American poetry and the wider culture of which it is a part" --
- Uniform Title
- Attention equals life (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Attention equals life (Online)
- Pursuit of the everyday in contemporary poetry and culture
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-346) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- Introduction: the poetics of everyday life since 1945 -- The crisis of attention, everyday life theory, and contemporary poetry -- "Each day so different, yet still alike": James Schuyler and the elusive everyday -- "Tthe tiny invites attention": A. R. Ammons's quotidian muse -- Writing the maternal everyday: Bernadette Mayer and her "daughters" (Hoa Nguyen, Susan Holbrook, Laynie Browne) -- "There is no content here, only dailiness": poetry as critique of everyday life in Ron Silliman's Ketjak -- Everyday life projects in contemporary poetry and culture (Kenneth Goldsmith, Claudia Rankine, Brenda Coultas, Harryette Mullen) -- Conclusion: Claudia Rankine's citizen and beyond.
- LCCN
- 2015042160
- OCLC
- ssj0001675059
- Author
Epstein, Andrew, 1969-
- Title
Attention equals life [electronic resource] : the pursuit of the everyday in contemporary poetry and culture / Andrew Epstein.
- Imprint
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2016]
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-346) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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