Jenkins, Grant Matthew.

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?


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American poetry--History and criticism.--20th century
Experimental poetry, American--History and criticism.
Ethics in literature.


Electronic books.

PS325 / .J46 2008eb

811/.5409