American Poetry as Transactional Art PDF
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Ameri can Poetry as Transactional Art MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY POETICS SERIES EDITORS Charles Bernstein Hank Lazer SERIES ADVISORY BOARD Maria Damon Rachel Blau DuPlessis Alan Golding Susan Howe Nathaniel Mackey Jerome McGann Harryette Mullen Aldon Nielsen Marjorie Perloff Joan Retallack Ron Silliman Jerry Ward Ameri can Poetry as Transactional Art STEPHEN FREDMAN THE UNIVERSITY OF ALA BAMA PRESS TUSCALOOSA The University of Alab ama Press Tuscaloosa, Ala bama 35487- 0380 uapress.ua.edu Copyright © 2020 by the University of Ala bama Press All rights reserved. Inquiries about reproducing material from this work should be addressed to the University of Ala bama Press. Typeface: Scala and Scala Sans Cover image: Untitled pigment print, 2018, by Faiya Fredman, from her Graffiti Goddess series; courtesy of the artist Cover design: Michele Myatt Quinn Cataloging- in- Publication data is available from the Library of Congress. ISBN: 978- 0- 8173- 5981- 2 E- ISBN: 978- 0- 8173- 9294- 9 For Gerald L. Bruns and Marjorie Perloff Treasured Partners in Conversation Contents List of Figures ix Preface xi Introduction 1 POETRY & SPIRIT: AGAINST ORTHODOXY 1. Why Mysticism in Twentieth- Century Americ an Poetry? 11 2. Jerome Rothenberg’s Technicians of the Sacred: Transactions between the Indigenous and the Avant- Garde 30 3. Judaism as Loss and the Buddhist Element in Michael Heller’s Eschaton 46 POETRY & ITS TIME: REVISING LITERARY HISTORY 4. “And All Now Is War”: George Oppen, Charles Olson, and Literary Generations 59 5. “The Lordly and Isolate Satyrs”: Charles Olson’s Contemporaries 67 6. Laurie Anderson in the Reagan Era 83 POETRY & THE ARTS: MULTIMEDIA EXCHANGE 7. Robert Creeley, Marisol, and Presences as Transaction Network 103 8. The Language Art of David Antin’s Talk Poems 116 9. Audio File Audiophile: Listening for Ambient Poetry 129 POETRY & PROSE: INTIMATE OPPOSITION 10. Translation and Not-U nderstanding 141 11. Paul Auster’s Solitude in the Room of the Book 148 12. Lyn Hejinian Becomes a Person on Paper 176 Epilogue: Teaching Ameri can Poetry 185 Notes 193 Bibliography 213 Index 225 Figures 1. Cover of Evergreen Review, no. 4 (1958) 76 2. Indianapolis, 1956, by Robert Frank 77 3. Angelus Novus, 1920, by Paul Klee 95 4. The Angel of History, 1989, by Anselm Kiefer 96 5. Book with Wings, 1994, by Anselm Kiefer 97 6. Laurie Anderson, 1987, by Robert Mapplethorpe 97 7. Creeley’s Creeleys, 2007, by Buzz Spector 114
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