The Darkness of the Present: Poetics, Anachronism, and the Anomaly

Acknowledgments

acknowledgments I want to offer my sincere thanks to the editors of the books and journals who first published earlier versions of some of the materials in this book. Chapter 11 appears for the first time in English. Chapters 3 and 9 appear for the first time in print. All other chapters have been revised, expanded, or modified. “Cacophony, Abstraction, and Potentiality: The Fate of the Dada Sound Poem,” The Sound of Poetry/The Poetry of Sound, eds. Marjorie Perloff and Craig Dworkin (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009): 118–28, 310–14. “Corrosive Poetics: The Relief Composition of Ronald Johnson’s Radi os,” PreTexts 11. 2 (Fall 2002): 7–23. “TranscoherenceandDeletion:theMesosticWritingsof JohnCage,”Etudes Anglaises: Littérature et Philosophie 59 No. 3 (Summer 2006): 329–340. “A Chapter of Incidents,” Errata: The Cultural Production of Accidents, Errors , and Unforeseen Events, special issue of Public: Art/Culture/Ideas 33 (Fall 2006): 64–73. “From Muse to Mousepad: Informatics and the Avant-Garde,” Phrasis: Studies in Language and Literature, 49.1 (Fall 2008): 168–192. “ParapoeticsandtheArchitecturalLeap,”Architecturesof Poetry,eds.María Eugenia Díaz and Craig Douglas Dworkin (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2004): 91–108. Revised ed. in Contemporary Poetics, ed. Louis Armand (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2007): 321–47 and 372– 76. 2nd revised ed. in A Time for the Humanities, eds. James J. Bono, Tim Dean, and Ewa P. Ziarek (New York: Fordham University Press, 2008): 161–79. “‘To Lose One’s Way’ (for Snails and Nomads): the Radical Labyrinths of Constant and Arakawa and Gins,” Architecture Against Death, special issue of Interfaces: Image Texte Language 21/22 (Winter 2003): 113–144. “The ’pataphysics of Auschwitz,” William Anastasi’s Pataphysical Society: Jarry, Joyce, Duchamp and Cage, eds. Aaron Levy and Jean-Michel Rabaté, Contemporary Artist Series No. 3 (Philadelphia: Slought Books, 2005): 24–31. xii acknowledgments “Le Rossignol Instrumental: Inflexions contre-musicales dans la poésie de Gray à Celan,” Le Rossignol Instrumental: Poésie, Musique, Modernité, trans. Piotr Burzykowski, eds. Jean-Pierre Bertrand, Michel Delville, and Christine Pagnoulle (Leuven & Paris: Peeters Vrin, 2004): 91–138. “Interpretation and the Limit Text” was first presented in an earlier version at the “Transgressing Boundaries and Strategies of Renewal in American Poetry,” conference at the Universidad de Salamanca, Spain, May 2000. The Darkness of the Present ...