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xii, 314 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
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text txt rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-308) and index |
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Also issued online |
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Introduction -- Defining postmodern poets -- Seriality and proceduralism: a typology of postmodern poetry -- Part I: Serial form -- The infinite serial form -- The unbound and the uneven: Robert Duncan's Passages -- Against the calendar: Paul Blackburn's Journals -- One thing findings its place with another; Robert Creeley's Pieces -- The finite serial form -- The dark house: Jack Spicer's book of Language -- The subway's iron circuit: George Oppen's Discrete series -- Sounding the resounding anew: Louis Zukofsky and Lorine Niedecker -- Part II: Procedural form -- A predetermined form -- Renovated form: the sestinas of John Ashbery and Louis Zukofsky -- Canonic form in Weldon Kees, Robert Creeley, and Louis Zukofsky -- A generative device -- Constant and variant: semantic recurrence of Harry Matthews, William Bronk, and Robert Creeley -- Arbitrary constraints and aleatory operations: Harry Mathews and John Cage -- A polemical conclusion: the language poetries and the new formalism |
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Online version: Conte, Joseph M. (Joseph Mark), 1960- Unending design. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1991 (OCoLC)645789855
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| Subject |
American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Postmodernism (Literature) -- United States
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