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We who love to be astonished : experimental women's writing and performance poetics
- 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, ©2002.
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- Description
- xii, 308 pages; 23 cm.
- Series Statement
- Modern and contemporary poetics
- Uniform Title
- Modern and contemporary poetics.
- Subject
- 1900-1999
- 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
- American literature
- American literature > Women authors
- Experimental fiction, American
- Experimental poetry, American
- Postmodernism (Literature)
- Women and literature
- Women and literature > United States > 20th century
- American literature > Women authors > History and criticism. > 20th century
- United States
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- 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
- 9780817310943
- 0817310959
- 9780817310950
- LCCN
- 2001002381
- OCLC
- ocm46822251
- 46822251
- SCSB-1243683
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library