Differentials: Poetry, Poetics, Pedagogy

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments vii Introduction: Differential Reading xi 1. Crisis in the Humanities? Recon¤guring Literary Study for the Twenty-¤rst Century 1 2. Cunning Passages and Contrived Corridors: Rereading Eliot’s “Gerontion” 20 3. The Search for “Prime Words”: Pound, Duchamp, and the Nominalist Ethos 39 4. “But isn’t the same at least the same?” Wittgenstein on Translation 60 5. “Logocinéma of the Frontiersman”: Eugene Jolas’s Multilingual Poetics and Its Legacies 82 6. “The Silence that is not Silence”: Acoustic Art in Samuel Beckett’s Radio Plays 102 7. Language Poetry and the Lyric Subject: Ron Silliman’s Albany, Susan Howe’s Buffalo 129 8. After Language Poetry: Innovation and Its Theoretical Discontents 155 9. The Invention of “Concrete Prose”: Haroldo de Campos’s Galaxias and After 175 10. Songs of the Earth: Ronald Johnson’s Verbivocovisuals 194 11. The Oulipo Factor: The Procedural Poetics of Christian Bök and Caroline Bergvall 205 12. Filling the Space with Trace: Tom Raworth’s “Letters from Yaddo” 227 13. Teaching the “New” Poetries: The Case of Rae Armantrout 243 14. Writing Poetry/Writing about Poetry: Some Problems of Af¤liation 258 Notes 269 Index 299 vi contents ...