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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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Additional Authors

• Hinton, Laura.
• Hogue, Cynthia.

Description

xii, 308 p.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Modern and contemporary poetics

Subject

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

Bibliography (note)

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

Contents

• Introduction : oppositions and astonishing continguities / Laura Hinton and Cynthia Hogue -- Part I. Formal thresholds -- "A poetics of emerging evidence" : experiment in Kathleen Fraser's poetry / Eileen Gregory -- Asterisk : separation at the threshold of meaning in the poetry of Rae Armantrout / Ron Silliman -- Alice Notley's experimental epic : "An ecstasy of finding another way of being" / Susan McCabe -- Intimacy and experiment in Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge's Empathy / Charles Altieri -- Part II. In the margins of form towards a new politics of representation? absence and desire in Denise Chavez's The last of the menu girls / AnaLouise Keating -- Beyond the frame of whiteness : Harryette Mullen's revisionary border work / Cynthia Hogue -- Untranslatable communities, productive translations, and public transport : Rosmarie Waldrop's A key into the language of America and Joy Harjo's The woman who fell from the sky / Jonathan Monroe -- "Nothing, for a woman, is worth trying" : a key into the rules of Rosmarie Waldrop's experimentalism -- Lynn Keller -- Rules and restraints in women's experimental writing / 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 / 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 / Laura Hinton
• -- "Drawings with words" : Susan Howe's visual poetics / 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 / Linda A. Kinnahan -- Part IV. Performative bodies / "In another tongue" : body, image, text in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dicte / Elizabeth A. Frost -- Painful bodies : Kathy Acker's last texts / Nicole Cooley -- "Eyes in all heads" : Anne Waldman's performance of bigendered imagination in Iovis 1 / Heather Thomas -- "Sonic revolutionaries" : voice and experiment in the spoken word poetry of Tracie Morris / Kathleen Crown -- Capillary currents : Jayne Cortez / Aldon Nielsen -- Afterword : "Draft 48 : being astonished" / Rachel Blau Duplessis.

ISBN

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

LCCN

2001002381

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library