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431 INDEX abbreviation and disjunction in Bang, 6, 32 abjection in Philip, 291 abrasion of languages in Moure, 178–79 accretion: in Myles, 11; in Wright, 15, 16 accumulation in Robertson, 378–79 acrostics, 348–49n42 Adorno, Theodor W., 137, 145–46, 155–56n10, 156n17 African American culture: both/ and sensibility in, 67, 69, 78, 88; in Clifton, 7, 69, 71, 75, 77–82; multiple identities and, 77; in Philip, 11–12, 272–73, 282–85, 286, 291, 293–303 Agamben, G., 168 Agee, James, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, 404, 405 Alberti, Leon Battista, 378, 383n34 Aletti, Vince, 403 alterity: of Bang, 6; of Clifton, 7; in contemporary poetry, 2–3; in Hahn, 8; identity as central to, 3–4; Mullen and, 10, 209–10, 216; in Philip, 292; in Retallack, 13, 322–24, 335–36, 338, 342; in Robertson, 14; in Wright, 15–16. See also “other” analytic listening in Harryman, 145 and/both vs. either/or viewpoint, 67, 69, 78, 88, 147–48 Ang, Ien, “Identity Blues,” 283–84 Anscombe, Elizabeth, Intention, 327–28 architecture of poetry: and instability of language, 31; Robertson and, 14–15, 361–64, 366–68, 370, 372, 381n14; self and social in Mullen, 208–10 Arendt, Hannah, 180 Armantrout, Rae, “Feminist Poetics and the Meaning of Clarity,” 367–68 Armstrong, Isobel, Contemporary Women’s Poetry: Reading/Writing/ Practice, 5 artifice, articulation of in Bang, 34–56 Ashcroft, Bill, The Post-Colonial Studies Reader, 283 Ashton, Jennifer, 16 Asian traditions in Hahn, 7, 107–9, 112–13, 119–23 atomized listening in Harryman, 145, 155–56n10 attention, refocusing of in Retallack, 338–39, 343–44 Auden, W. H., 140 audience, Myles’s, 255–56 audition, and Harryman’s Baby, 9, 142–54, 155–56n10 Austin, J. L., 245, 332 authority, Philip’s overthrow of, 282 autobiographical poetry: in Bang, 46–52; in Hahn, 111; and identity, 3; in Myles, 244, 248, 258n33; in Wright, 408, 411 autonomy: in Hahn, 113; Harryman and, 139, 146, 148, 150–51; in Mullen, 213, 224; in Philip, 285 avant-garde: elegance in, 378; Myles on being, 255; vs. New Critical lyric, 35–36. See also Myles, Eileen; Philip, M. NourbeSe; Robertson, Lisa Bang, Mary Jo: autobiographical poetry in, 46–52; ekphrastic poetry of, 40–46; identity in, 6, 39–44, 46, 49–50, 52, 54; Kelsey’s analysis, 6, 34–56; language for, 31–32, 36, 432 | Index 39; lyric interiority in, 6–7, 34, 35; narrative structures in, 42–44; New Critical lyric in, 35–38, 40, 45, 54; overview of work, 5–6; poetics statement, 30–33; visual art and, 40–45, 47 Bang, Mary Jo, works of: “And as in Alice,” 6, 25, 53; Apology for Want, 38–39; “The Beauties of Nature,” 39; “B Is for Beckett,” 26, 36, 51; “Blue Sky Elegy,” 47; The Bride of E, 6, 25–29, 36, 50–55; “C Is for Cher,” 26–27; “Don’t,” 47; The Downstream Extremity of the Isle of Swans, 36, 39; Elegy, 6, 23–24, 46–50; The Eye Like a Strange Balloon, 19–22, 38, 40–46; “High Art,” 19, 40, 43–45; “‘In Order’ Means Neat and Not Next,” 50; “In the Present and Probable Future,” 27–29, 54; “Intractable, and Irreversible,” 47, 49; “Landscape with the Fall of Icarus,” 23, 48–49; Louise in Love, 37, 38–39, 43; “Mrs. Autumn and Her Two Daughters ,” 21, 42–43; Mrs. Dalloway, 29–30, 37, 55; “Opened and Shut,” 29–30, 55; “The Role of Elegy,” 47; “Untitled # 70 (Or, The Question of Remains),” 22; “Waiting,” 47; “What If,” 50; “What Is So Frightening ,” 49–50; “What Moonlight Will Do for Ruins,” 40; “Where Once,” 49; “Words,” 24, 49, 50 Barnholden, Michael, 380 Barthes, Roland, 152–53; Camera Lucida, 40; Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes, 252 Beck, Julian, 397, 402 Beckett, Samuel, 39, 52, 376; Ohio, Impromptu, 36–37 Berger, John, 211 Bergson, Henri, 371 Bergvall, Caroline, “Writing at the Crossroads of Language,” 335 Bernstein, Charles, “Artifice of Absorption ,” 35–36, 38, 46 Berrigan, Ted, 242 Beuys, Joseph, 200 biblical personas in Clifton, 77–79, 91n24 Bishop, Elizabeth: “A Cold Spring,” 108; “First Death in Nova Scotia,” 107; “The Fish,” 109; “The Shampoo,” 39; “The Waiting Room,” 107 Blanchot, Maurice, 153 bodily texts: in Clifton, 77, 83; in Hahn, 7–8, 107–10, 113–14, 119–23; in Harryman, 142–43; Moure and, 169; in Myles, 11, 243–44; in Philip, 13, 285, 289–92, 296–301 Bohr, Niels...

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