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Ideas of Space in Contemporary Poetry Ian Davidson Ideas of Space in Contemporary Poetry 1 2 4- 0 1- 1 0 2 ct - e n n o C e v a gr al P o - s m o Tr et i k e ot bli bi s et sit er v ni U o d t e s n e c m - li o c ct. e n n o c e v a gr al p w. w w m o al fr eri at m ht g yri p o C 10.1057/9780230595569 - Ideas of Space in Contemporary Poetry, Ian Davidson February2007 MAC/ICY Page-i 1403_997713_01_preiv AlsobyIanDavidson ASIFONLY(Shearsman) ATASTRETCH(Shearsman) 1 HARSH(SpectacularDiseases) 4-2 0 HUMANREMAINSANDSUDDENMOVEMENTS(WestHouseBooks) 11- 0 2 ct - e n n o C e v a gr al P o - s m o Tr et i k e ot bli bi s et sit er v ni U o d t e s n e c m - li o c ct. e n n o c e v a gr al p w. w w m o al fr eri at m ht g yri p o C 10.1057/9780230595569 - Ideas of Space in Contemporary Poetry, Ian Davidson February2007 MAC/ICY Page-ii 1403_997713_01_preiv Ideas of Space in Contemporary Poetry 1 2 4- 0 1- Ian Davidson 01 2 ct - e n n o C e v a gr al P o - s m o Tr et i k e ot bli bi s et sit er v ni U o d t e s n e c m - li o c ct. e n n o c e v a gr al p w. w w m o al fr eri at m ht g yri p o C 10.1057/9780230595569 - Ideas of Space in Contemporary Poetry, Ian Davidson February2007 MAC/ICY Page-iii 1403_997713_01_preiv ©IanDavidson2007 Foreword©PeterBarry2007 Allrightsreserved.Noreproduction,copyortransmissionofthis publicationmaybemadewithoutwrittenpermission. Noparagraphofthispublicationmaybereproduced,copiedortransmitted 1 savewithwrittenpermissionorinaccordancewiththeprovisionsofthe 4-2 Copyright,DesignsandPatentsAct1988,orunderthetermsofanylicence 1-0 permittinglimitedcopyingissuedbytheCopyrightLicensingAgency, 01 2 90TottenhamCourtRoad,LondonW1T4LP. ct - Anypersonwhodoesanyunauthorisedactinrelationtothispublication ne n maybeliabletocriminalprosecutionandcivilclaimsfordamages. o C e Theauthorhasassertedhisrighttobeidentified av astheauthorofthisworkinaccordancewiththeCopyright, gr al DesignsandPatentsAct1988. P o - Firstpublished2007by s m PALGRAVEMACMILLAN o Tr H17o5unFdifmthilAlsv,eBnausein,gNsetowkeY,oHrka,mNp.Ysh.i1r0e0R1G0216XSand ket i e Companiesandrepresentativesthroughouttheworld ot bli PALGRAVEMACMILLANistheglobalacademicimprintofthePalgrave bi MacmillandivisionofSt.Martin’sPress,LLCandofPalgraveMacmillanLtd. ets Macmillan(cid:2)isaregisteredtrademarkintheUnitedStates,UnitedKingdom sit andothercountries.PalgraveisaregisteredtrademarkintheEuropean ver Unionandothercountries. Uni o ISBN-13:978(cid:3)1(cid:3)4039(cid:3)9771(cid:3)5hardback d t ISBN-10:1(cid:3)4039(cid:3)9771(cid:3)3hardback se n e Tmhaisnabgoeodkaisndprsinutsetadinoendpfaopreerstsusoituarbcleesf.oLrorgegciyncgl,inpgulapnindgmanaddemfraonmufafucltluyring m - lic processesareexpectedtoconformtotheenvironmentalregulationsofthe co countryoforigin. ct. e n AcataloguerecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. on c LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData ve a Davidson,Ian,1957(cid:3) gr Ideasofspaceincontemporarypoetry/IanDavidson. pal p. cm. ww. ISBN-13:978(cid:3)1(cid:3)4039(cid:3)9771(cid:3)5(cloth) w m ISBN-10:1(cid:3)4039(cid:3)9771(cid:3)3(cloth) o 1.Englishpoetry“21stcentury“Historyandcriticism. 2.English al fr poetry“20thcentury“Historyandcriticism. 3.Americanpoetry“21st eri century“Historyandcriticism. 4.Americanpoetry“20th at m century“Historyandciriticism. 5.Modernism(Literature)“English- ht speakingcountries. 6.Postmodernism(Literature)“English-speaking g countries. 7.Spaceandtimeinliterature 8.Materialisminliterature. pyri I.Title. Co PR612.D382007 821(cid:2).09“dc22 2006052950 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 09 08 07 PrintedandboundinGreatBritainby AntonyRoweLtd,ChippenhamandEastbourne 10.1057/9780230595569 - Ideas of Space in Contemporary Poetry, Ian Davidson February2007 MAC/ICY Page-iv 1403_997713_01_preiv Contents 1 2 4- 0 1- 1 0 2 ct - e n n o C e v ListofFigures vii gra al P Acknowledgements viii o - s m ForewordbyPeterBarry ix Tro et i k e ot Introduction 1 bli bi s et 1 AestheticsofSpace:CubismtoLanguagePoetry 6 sit er v ni 2 SpatialTheoriesandPoeticPractices 24 o U Spaceandplace 28 ed t s Spatialpractice,representationsofspace,andspacesof en c representation 33 m - li Therhizomaticandthenomadic 39 co ct. Spaceandthebody 48 e n n o c e 3 TheSpaceAge:The1950stothe1970s 59 av gr Poetriesofplaces 59 al p Mapsandmapping 60 ww. w CharlesOlson 65 m o EdwardDorn 70 al fr eri at 4 HistoriesofSelves:Space,IdentityandSubjectivity 80 m Historiesandspace 80 ght yri p o 5 Space,PlaceandIdentity 89 C CatherineWalshandEavanBoland 103 RalphHawkins 106 FannyHowe 114 Oldendingsandnewbeginnings 122 v 10.1057/9780230595569 - Ideas of Space in Contemporary Poetry, Ian Davidson February2007 MAC/ICY Page-v 1403_997713_02_previ vi Contents 6 Now You See It: Visual Poetry and the Space of thePage 124 Historiesofvisualandconcretepoetry 124 Visualpoetryandthepoeticline 131 1 The1950sand1960s 138 2 4- 0 Graffitiartists:fromcleanconcretetodirtyvisuals 141 1- 1 0 Pagesandspaces 149 2 ct - e n 7 ThroughtheLookingGlass:PoetryinVirtualWorlds 163 on C e v a gr WorksCited 186 Pal o - Index 193 ms o Tr et i k e ot bli bi s et sit er v ni U o d t e s n e c m - li o c ct. e n n o c e v a gr al p w. w w m o al fr eri at m ht g yri p o C 10.1057/9780230595569 - Ideas of Space in Contemporary Poetry, Ian Davidson February2007 MAC/ICY Page-vi 1403_997713_02_previ List of Figures 1 2 4- 0 1- 1 0 2 ct - e 1.1 ‘Karawane’,HugoBall(1917) 10 nn o 2.1 ‘Text1’,Warw/Windsor,BillGriffiths(1974) 44 eC v a 6.1 ‘Intermedia’,DickHiggins(1995) 126 gr al 6.2 ‘UnCoupdeDésjamaisn’aboliraleHasard’,Stéphane o - P Mallarmé 130 ms o 6.3 ‘Silencio’,EugenGomringer(1954) 133 Tr 6.4 Carnival,SteveMcCaffery(1999).Panel1:2,3,4and ket i e Panel2:CHANGEOFADDRESS 134 ot bli 6.5 ‘WORM’,BobCobbing(1966) 140 bi s et 6.6 ‘bebacocacola’,DécioPignatari(1957) 142 sit 6.7 ‘rubber-stamppoem’,EmmettWilliams(1958) 143 ver ni 6.8 ‘insitu’,CarolineBergvall 151 o U 6.9 ‘LanguedocVariorum’,HighWestRendezvous,EdDorn ed t s (1996) 152 en c 7.1 PeterHoward’swebsite–‘LowProbabilityofRacoons’ 180 m - li o c ct. e n n o c e v a gr al p w. w w m o al fr eri at m ht g yri p o C vii 10.1057/9780230595569 - Ideas of Space in Contemporary Poetry, Ian Davidson February2007 MAC/ICY Page-vii 1403_997713_03_prexii Acknowledgements 1 2 4- 0 Thisbookcomesoutofalongprocessofengagementwithpoetsand 1- 1 0 pnoametreyailnlthBroisteaipne,oIprelleawndh,othhaevUentaitlekdedStaabtoeustatnhdeCidaenaasdina.tThoebbeogoikn,otor ect - 2 n n havetalkedabouttheirpoetry,providedmewithnewleadsorgiven Co e me more formal feedback through attendance at conference papers av gr oraseditors,wouldbeanimpossibletask.AllIcandoisregistermy al P thanksfortheirunfailinggenerosity. o - s m Some of the ideas in this book are otherwise explored in papers o Tr that have either been published or are forthcoming in Performance et i k Research,TheSaltCompaniontoLeeHarwood,RemovedforFurtherStudy: e ot ThePoetryofTomRaworth(TheGig),AdditionalApparitions(ThePaper) bli bi andPoetryWales.Mythankstotheeditors. ets The research and writing of this book has been supported in part ersit v byanAHRC/WelshAcademyCreativeandResearchfellowship,and ni U byresearchleavefromtheUniversityofWales,Bangor.Withoutthat d to e support the book would have been less than it is and I thank them s n e forThthiseboopopkorttaukneistieasdtvhaentfaugnedionfgtphreovpirdinedci.ple of fair dealing in its m - lic o c quotation of copyright material. Every effort has also been made to ct. e traceholdersofcopyrightmaterialandpermissionhasbeenregistered nn o c below.Ifanyhavebeenoverlooked,thepublisherswillbepleasedto ve a makethenecessaryarrangementatthefirstopportunity. gr al p I would like to thank the following for permission to quote their w. w material in this book: Denise Riley, Jim Bennett, Ralph Hawkins, w m GFaenranlydiHnoewMeo.nk, Peter Riley, Tom Raworth, Carcanet, Bill Griffiths, erial fro at m ht g yri p o C viii 10.1057/9780230595569 - Ideas of Space in Contemporary Poetry, Ian Davidson February2007 MAC/ICY Page-viii 1403_997713_03_prexii Foreword 1 2 4- 0 Back in the early 1990s, when I was a lecturer at LSU College in 1- 1 0 SfrooumthMamanpctohnes,tIehrewaards voinsittihneggtrhaepeUvniniveetrhsiattya. Icommamnaigsseidontoinggeetdhitiomr ect - 2 n n to call at LSU as well, and we had lunch in the Inner Avenue, just Co e across the road from the college, at a born-again local which was in av gr processofbecomingverytrendy.TheprojectIwantedtoputforward al P was an edited volume on contemporary avant-garde poetry, a book o - s m whichIhadbeenplottingwithRobertHampsonsincethemid-1980s. o Tr Over the years, lists of potential contributors and possible topics in et i k Robert’smeticuloushandwritingweredone(literally)onthebacksof e ot envelopes, usually in pubs in the vicinity of Tottenham Court Road bli bi after poetry readings or day conferences, as I prepared to head back ets to Waterloo and the train to Southampton. I used those notes to ersit v typeupafull-scale‘proposal’whichIhandedovertotheManchester ni U commissioningeditorinthehalf-lightofthebackroombarinInner d to e Avenue (in retrospect, most discussions about contemporary poetry ns e saenedmtehdetboohoakpwpaesndiunlyhaclofm-limtbiasscikornoeodm,rbeasursl)t.inTgheinpNreeswswBraistiisnhtPeroeestrtieeds,: m - lic o c TheScopeofthePossible,jointlyeditedbyRobertHampsonandPeter ct. e n Barry,in1993.Itwasthefirstbookaboutcontemporaryavant-garde, n o c or ‘neo-Modernist’, poetry to appear in the United Kingdon from ve a a major press and designed for a wide readership of academics and gr al p practitioners. Before that, the only critical material available was of w. w a much more fugitive kind and was aimed at a coterie readership of w m thTeoadlraeya,dtyhiensititiautaetdio.n is transformed, and the welcome appearance erial fro ofIanDavidson’sbookisoneoftheindicationsofthatchange.Ashe mat says,iftherearestill‘distinctionsbetweenamainstreamcentreand ght anexperimentalmargin,theyarenolongersustainedbyavailability pyri o C or visibility’. In other words, ‘small press’ (and ‘micro-press’) work todayisaswidelydistributedastheworkofpoetswhoarepublished byFaberorPicador.Informationaboutthemisinstantlyavailableon the Internet, and new imprints like ‘Salt’ and ‘Shearsman’ maintain extensive lists of poets in print, and publish full-scale critical books ix 10.1057/9780230595569 - Ideas of Space in Contemporary Poetry, Ian Davidson February2007 MAC/ICY Page-ix 1403_997713_03_prexii

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