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Index 169 Essays into Contemporary Poetics Index A i"CPVU'BDFw 'VMUPO  Abstract Epistolary, 30 Ackroyd, Peter, 12 The Act of Reading (Iser), 107 “Adam’s Curse” (Yeats), 61 “After Lorca” (Spicer), 95–97 After the Death of Poetry (Shetley), 7 “Against Unity” (Wallace), 119–29, 149 Ali, Taha Muhammed, 112 “Alive for an Instant” (Koch), 50 Allen, Donald, 153 Alphabet (Christensen), 57 “America” (Ginsberg), 50–52 American Hybrid, 4, 117–20, 125–27, 129–32, 139, 141–42, 148–53 “American Poetry in the New Century” (Barr), 8 American Poetry Since 1950 (Weinberger), 117 American Women Poets in the 21st Century (Rankine and Spahr), 118, 126 Anaphora, 46, 48, 51–52, 53–54, 56. See also Litany in contemporary poetry “And As In Alice” (Bang), 71 “Andrew Marvell” (Eliot), 131–32 Antin, David, 49–50 Anzaldúa, Gloria, 138 Apex of the M (magazine), 124 Aquiline, Danielle, 33 “Archaic Torso of Apollo” (Rilke), 164 Archambeau, Robert, 2, 5–26 Armantrout, Rae, 127 Arnold, Matthew, 16, 19 Arteaga, Alfred, 138 Ashbery, John, 15, 34, 142, 145 “As If to Say” (Nealon), 36 Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP), 3, 118–20, 140, 149 “Atlas” (Ryan), 66–67 “At Peter Pan Mini Golf After the Wedding of Rebecca and Brian, or Any Binary System” (Boehl), 31 Auden, W. H., 62 Auster, Paul, 117 “Autobiogeography” (Aquiline), 33 “Autobiographia” (Parker), 35 Autonomous principle, 10–11 B Background rhyme, 61–76 Bang, Mary Jo, 71–72, 156 Barr, John, 8, 14, 17, 22–24 Barrett, Terry, 32 Battiste, Michele, 39 Bawer, Bruce, 7–8 Beach, Christopher, 8 Beach Boys, 114 Beatles, 114 Beginning to See the Light (Willis), 108 Benedikt, Michael, 49–50 Benjamin, Walter, 79–80, 89–90 Bernini, Gian Lorenzo, 109 Bernstein, Charles, 8, 23 Berry, Chuck, 108 The Best American Poetry 2009, 155–56 “The Bicycles and the Apex” (Oppen), 162 #JEBSU 'SBOL o Biddinger, Mary, 1–4 Bishop, Elizabeth, 81 Björk (singer), 134 Black Dog Songs (Jarnot), 45 Blake, William, 68 Blanchot, Maurice, 80 “Bleeding Hearts” (Mullen), 40 Boehl, Dan, 31 Bohemianized poetry, 10–14, 20–21 Bohemian vs. Bourgeois, 10 Book of Psalms, 46 Book of Revelation, 88 Borderlands/La Frontera (Anzaldúa), 138 Border Matters (Saldívar), 138 Bourdieu, Pierre, 11 Bourgeoisie, 11, 19–20 “The Box Turtle” (Carlin), 163 Božiˇ cevi´ c, Ana, 36, 38 Breton, Andre, 49–50 170 Index The Monkey and the Wrench Britten, Benjamin, 113 Brock-Broido, Lucie, 31 Brown, Clarence, 85–86 Browning, Robert, 16, 61, 69 Burt, Stephen, 3, 46–47, 59–76, 118, 130, 133 Byron, Lord, 62–63, 64–65 C Cammermeyer, Margaret, 142 Can Poetry Matter? (Gioia), 7, 132 Cantos (Pound), 112 Caplan, David, 118 Caps Lock Key, 37–38 Carey, John, 106 Carlin, Patricia, 163–64 Carlin, Peter Ames, 114 Carlyle, Thomas, 14–16, 19 Carpenter, John and Bogdana, 86, 89 Carroll, Lewis, 107 Carson, Anne, 93–95, 98 Cash, Johnny, 104–5 Cassirer, Ernst, 79–80 The Castle of Indolence (Disch), 8 Casual Hedge, 34 Chiasson, Dan, 32 Chicano Poetics (Arteaga), 138–39 Child, Julia, 111 Christensen, Inger, 57 Christle, Heather, 31 “Close Calls with Nonsense” (Burt), 118, 130 Closure techniques, 4, 154–64; change of form and diction, 160–61; interruption, 161–62; open box, 162–63; postmodern jump cut, 159–60; repetition, 155–59; surprise ending, 163–64 CocoRosie (singer), 134 Cocteau, Jean, 94–95 Cohen, Julia, 33–34 Colby, Mary, 163 The Collected Poems (Herbert), 86 Collins, Billy, 110 Comparing Something to Itself, 31 Completeness in poetry, 3, 78–90 Compton, Shanna, 34 “Confession” (Wise), 28 “Contrast Girls” (Compton), 34 “The cooked and the uncooked” (Lowell), 117 Coriolanus (Shakespeare), 114 Crane, Hart, 70 Crawford, Sugar Boy, 107 Credentialing of poets in graduate writing programs, 7 Creeley, Robert, 68 Crossings (croisements), 109 “Crows” (Johnston), 75–76 “Cryptozoology” (Mark), 40 Cultural paternalism, 21, 23 Cushman, Stephen, 65 D Dante, 84 “The Dark Eidolon” (Smith), 120–21 Davis, Olena Kalytiak, 47 Davis, Philip, 113–114 i%FBS'JOBM+PVSOFZw &NBOVFM  “Decreation” (Carson), 93–95 Definition by Negation, 39 Description by Negation, 39 Dialogue Concerning Heresies (More), 88–89 Dickens, Charles, 14, 16, 17,46, 111 Dickey, James, 109 Dickinson, Emily, 107–8, 111, 113 Dickinson, Jim, 112 Diction, changing as closure technique, 161–62 Disch, Thomas, 8, 21–22 Discursive situation of poetry, 2, 5–25 Dodd, Wayne, 2 Doisneau, Robert, 111 Don Juan (Byron), 64–65 %POPHIVF 'SBOL  “Don’t You Just Know It” (Smith), 107 “A Drag Queen’s Lament” (Volpert), 119...

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