The Monkey and the Wrench: Essays into Contemporary Poetics

Contents

Contents Mary Biddinger and John Gallaher Introduction: Of Monkeys and Wrenches 1 Robert Archambeau The Discursive Situation of Poetry 5 Elisa Gabbert The Moves: Common Maneuvers in Contemporary Poetry 27 Michael Dumanis An Aesthetics of Accumulation: On the Contemporary Litany 43 Stephen Burt Cornucopia, or, Contemporary American Rhyme 59 Benjamin Paloff I Am One of an Infinite Number of Monkeys Named Shakespeare, or; Why I Don’t Own this Language 78 Elizabeth Robinson Persona and the Mystical Poem 92 David Kirby A Wilderness of Monkeys 104 Arielle Greenberg, Craig Santos Perez, Michael Theune, Megan Volpert, and Mark Wallace Hybrid Aesthetics and its Discontents 117 Cole Swensen Response to Hybrid Aesthetics and its Discontents 148 Joy Katz Goodbye, Goodbye, Goodbye: Notes on the Ends of Poems 154 Contributors 166 Index 169 This page intentionally left blank ...