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The Collaborative Artist's Book
35th Modern Language Association Prize for Contingent Faculty and Independent Scholars, Honorable Mention The Collaborative Artist’s Book offers a rare glimpse into collaborations between poets and painters from 1945 to the present, and highlights how the artist’s book became a critical form for experimental American artists in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Alexandra Gold provides a broad overview of the artist’s book form and the many ongoing debates and challenges, from the disciplinary to the institutional, that these forms continue to pose. Gold presents five case studies and details not only how each individual collaboration came to be but how all five together engage and challenge conventional ideals about art, subjectivity, poetry, and interpersonal relations, as well as complex social questions related to gender and race. Taking several of these books out of special collections libraries and museum archives and making them available to a broad readership, Gold brings to light a whole genre that has been largely forgotten or neglected.
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The Poetics of Scale
"Big data, sensor networks, rolling newsfeeds: today we are constantly surrounded by communication technologies mapping and remapping the complexity of our interconnected planet. But one technology has been overlooked: the poem. This book tells the story of how, over the century, authors and readers reinvented poetry as a form of macro-scale imagination, able to capture the speed and scope of global capitalist society when all other media fall short. It also asks what that story tells us today: why have we been so keen to picture poetry as a kind of global information system (a picture I call 'epic reading')? What may have been lost? This story, it turns out, takes us back to the years just ...
Open Admissions
In Open Admissions Danica Savonick traces the largely untold story of the teaching experience of Toni Cade Bambara, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, and Adrienne Rich at the City University of New York (cuny) in the late 1960s and early 1970s. This period, during which cuny guaranteed tuition-free admission to every city high school graduate, was one of the most controversial in US educational history. Analyzing their archival teaching materials—syllabi, lesson plans, and assignments—alongside their published work, Savonick reveals how these renowned writers were also transformative educators who developed creative methods of teaching their students to navigate and change the world. In fact, many of their methods—such as student-led courses, collaborative public projects, and the publication of student writing—anticipated the kinds of student-centered and antiracist pedagogies that have become popular in recent years. In addition to recovering the pedagogical legacy of these writers, Savonick shows how teaching in cuny’s free and open classrooms fundamentally altered their writing and, with it, the course of American literature and feminist criticism.
Dissonant Voices
"Dissonant Voices: Race, Jazz, and Innovative Poetics in Midcentury America explores the braiding together of racial politics, popular music, and avant-garde poetics in post-war American culture. Ranging from roughly the late-1940s to the early 1970s, this study examines the development of open field poetics, alternately termed projective verse, after Charles Olson's influential essay of the same name. In doing so, it traces projective verse from its creation amidst the crucible of racial integration at Black Mountain College, to its development through a series of interracial friendships explored among writers involved in the Boston, San Francisco, and downtown New York scenes, to its reima...
Poetics of Cognition
Poetics of Cognition investigates the material effects of experimental poetics using new evidence emerging from cognitive science. It asks: How do experimental poems “think” and how do we think through them? Examining experimental modes such as the New Sentence, proceduralism, projective verse, sound poetry, and visual poetry, Jessica Lewis Luck argues that experimental poems materialize not so much the content as the activity of the embodied mind, and they can thus function as a powerful scaffolding for extended cognition, both for the writer and the reader. While current critical approaches tend to describe the effects of experimentalism solely in terms of emotion and sensation, Luck s...
Lyric Trade
"Sometimes the word "lyric" seems to appear everywhere: either it's used interchangeably with the word "poetry," or it attaches to descriptions of literature, art, film, and even ordinary objects in order to capture some quality of aesthetic appeal or value or meaning. This book is not yet another attempt to define the lyric, but instead to dig into what the word might be standing in for. This book shows how lyric's taxonomical slipperiness, its ideological baggage, its historical misconstruals and debates whether it ought to be considered a genre, a mode, a style, a structure of address, a remnant of classicism or romanticism or modernism or something else-mobilize its specialness, its exem...
