Poetics Journal Digital Archive Poetics Journal Digital Archive with the copublication of A Guide to Poetics Journal Edited by Lyn Hejinian and Barrett Watten WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY PRESS Middletown, Connecticut Wesleyan University Press Middletown CT 06459 www.wesleyan.edu/wespress © 2014 Lyn Hejinian and Barrett Watten All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America Ebook ISBN 978-0-8195-7123-6 Publication of this book is funded by the Beatrice Fox Auerbach Foundation Fund at the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving. “Cover illustration: Marjorie Welish. Indecidability of the Sign: Frame 23, acrylic on panels, 2007, 18 × 28”. publication of this book is funded by the BEATRICE FOX AUERBACH FOUNDATION FUND at the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving Contents How to Use This Archive xv Kathy Acker 1 Ugly 3 Pierre Alferi, Seeking a Sentence 10 Michael Amnasan, The Eclipsing Function of Full Comprehension 19 Joe Liar, Chapter 4 25 Mike Anderson, Framing the Construals 38 Bruce Andrews, Total Equals What: Poetics and Praxis 46 Rae Armantrout, Chains 62 Mainstream Marginality 64 On “Pythagorean Silence” 68 The Person in My Work 71 Silence 73 Dennis Barone, A Note on John Smith and “Philadelphia Newspapers Read Crossways” 78 John Smith, Philadelphia Newspapers Read Crossways 79 Susan [Laufer] Bee, Kahlo’s Gaze 85 Dodie Bellamy, Can’t We Just Call It Sex?: In Memory of David Wojnarowicz 91 Days Without Someone 97 Franco Beltrametti, Normal Deep Person 107 David Benedetti, Fear of Poetic (Social) Knowledge: Why Some People Don’t Like (Language) Poetry 108 Andrew Benjamin, The Body of Writing: Notes on the Poetry of Glenda George 122 Steve Benson, Close Reading: Leavings and Cleavings 129 Mediations in an Emergency 137 Personal as Social History: Three Fictions 147 Steve Benson and Carla Harryman, Dialogue: Museo de antropología, Mexico 155 Bill Berkson, Stick 164 Alan Bernheimer, The Simulacrum of Narrative 165 Charles Bernstein, Professing Stein / Stein Professing 168 Writing and Method 176 Richard Blevins, “The Single Intelligence”: The Formation of Robert Creeley’s Epistemology 189 Bruce Boone, Kathy Acker’s “Great Expectations” 195 A Narrative Like a Punk Picture: Shocking Pinks, Lavenders, Magentas, Sickly Greens 201 David Bromige, Alternatives of Exposition 206 Philosophy and Poetry: A Note 211 Carolyn Burke, Without Commas: Gertrude Stein and Mina Loy 217 Bruce Campbell, “But What Is an Adequate Vice to Limit the Liquid of This Voice” 227 “Elsewhere”?: “Beyond” Artaud, “Beside” Barthes 247 cris cheek 253 Maxine Chernoff, The Fence of Character 258 Abigail Child, The Exhibit and the Circulation 261 Outside Topographies: Three Moments in Film 271 Abigail Child and Sally Silvers, Rewire / / Speak in Disagreement 275 William Corbett, Harwood / Walker and Raworth 283 Margaret Crane and John Winet, From “This Is Your Life” 290 Beverly Dahlen, Forbidden Knowledge 293 In Re “Person” 311 From “The Tradition of Marginality” 314 Daniel Davidson, Bureaucrat, my love. 317 Michael Davidson, Framed by Story 323 “Hey Man, My Wave!”: The Authority of Private Language 328 Poetics of Everyday Life 342 Seven Poems 346 Alan Davies, Close Reading Close Reading 354 Language/Mind/Writing 357 Motor Mouth 368 Or How Shall We Yet Catch Each Unmindful Eye Awake 370 Strong Language 374 Lydia Davis, Coolidge’s “Mine” 379 Some Notes on Armantrout’s “Precedence” 386 Jean Day, Moving Object 391 Ron Day, Form and the Dialogic 396 Françoise de Laroque, What Is the Sex of the Poets? 403 Jeff Derksen, North Of 413 Arkadii Dragomoshchenko, The Eroticism of Forgetting 420 I(s) 430 Syn opsis tax 441 Johanna Drucker, Close Reading: A Billboard 445 Hypergraphy: A Note on Maurice Lemaître’s “Roman hypergraphique” 449 Women and Language 458 Mikhail Dziubenko, “New Poetry” and Perspectives for Philology 472 Jerry Estrin, Cold Heaven: The Uses of Monumentality 481 Penultimate Witness: The Work of Emmanuel Hocquard 489 Steve Evans, Gizzi’s “No Both” 496 Steven Farmer [Roberts], Reading Eye Lets 500 Norman Finkelstein, The Problem of the Self in Recent American Poetry 505 Norman Fischer, Corbett’s “Collected Poems” and Dahlen’s “A Reading” 514 Modernism, Postmodernism, and Values 520 The Old City 523 The Poetics of Lived Experience and the Concept of the Person 528 Allen Fisher, Poetics, Philosophy, and Difference 532 Postmodernism as Package 535 Connie Fitzsimons, The Oath 542 Kathleen Fraser, Overheard 544 Howard Fried, The Museum Reaction Piece 553 Benjamin Friedlander, Laura Riding / Some Difficulties 561 Lyrical Interference 570
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