Phenomenology and the Late Twentieth-Century American Long Poem

• Main Author: Carbery, Matthew (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics
• Subjects: Poetry.; America-Literatures.; Literature, Modern-20th century.; Poetry and Poetics.; North American Literature.; Twentieth-Century Literature.

Phenomenology and the Late Twentieth-Century American Long Poem reads major figures including Charles Olson, Lyn Hejinian, Nathaniel Mackey, Susan Howe and Rachel Blau DuPlessis within a new approach to the long poem tradition. Through a series of contextualised close readings, it explores the ways...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Coming To Terms With The American Long Poem- Introduction
• 2. Finding A Word For Ourselves - George Oppen's Of Being Numerous
• 3. A Huge Companionship - Robin Blaser's Image-Nations
• 4. A Grand Essay On Perception - Lyn Hejinian & Leslie Scalapino's Sight
• 5. A Massive System of Urgency - Susan Howe's Pierce Arrow
• 6. Adumbration Bound Our Book - Nathaniel Mackey's 'Song of Andoumboulou'
• 7. The Book Withdraws Into Itself Rachel Blau DuPlessis' Drafts
• 8. An Ever-Renewed Experience Of Its Own Beginning - Conclusion.