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v Table of Contents Foreword, Neil Besner / vii Biographical Note / viii Introduction, Darren Wershler / ix A Theory of the Lyric / 1 from Teachable Texts / 2 from Theory of Sediment: The Curve to Its Answer / 13 A Child’s History of Rhetoric Caught as It Happens / 18 from The Entries / 19 A Few Donuts from an Hommagiste or: Bad Modernism / 23 from Some Versions of Pastoral / 26 Apologia Pro Vita Sua / 28 Coleridge in Calgary (ars poetica 4) / 29 Ephemera / 34 from Lag / 35 from An Effect of Cellophane / 39 Oedipus Meets the Abstract Machine / 41 Suggestion but No Insult / 42 The Dangers of Poetry (for Italo Calvino) / 43 The Lone Ranger in Arcadia / 44 Restricted Translation with Imperfect Level Shift (after Basho) / 45 The Poem as a Thing to See / 46 The View from Here / 47 Tyrolean Night / 48 A Map / 57 Correlata for a Cryptogram / 58 The Logic of Six / 59 First Vico Meditation / 63 Second Vico Meditation / 64 Digital Poetics / 65 Prior to Meaning / 66 Afterword, Steve McCaffery / 67 Acknowledgements / 73 vi / Contents ...

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