Poetic obligation ethics in experimental American poetry after 1945 / [electronic resource] :
G. Matthew Jenkins.
- Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2008.
- xv, 263 p.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-258) and index.
Introduction: The double-double turn -- pt. 1. Objectivist poethics -- Saying obligations: George Oppen's Of being numerous -- A phenomenology of judgment: Charles Reznikoff's Holocaust -- pt. 2. Excess and eros. The ethics of excess: Edward Dorn's Gunslinger -- The body ethical: Robert Duncan's Passages -- pt. 3. An ethics of sexual alterity. The nearnes sof poetry: Susan Howe's The nonconformist's memorial -- Permeable ethics: Lyn Hejinian's The cell -- Conclusion: What difference does poetic obligation make?
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
American poetry--History and criticism.--20th century Experimental poetry, American--History and criticism. Ethics in literature.