Product Description: Amena y documentada biografia colectiva, deudora de los trabajos de historia narrativa de Barbara Tuchman y Peter Gay que retrata las figuras y los momentos mas brillantes del Dadaismo, un movimiento que transformo radicalmente el arte del siglo XX y cuyas ramificaciones llegan hasta nuestros dias...read more

Poetry, for Jed Rasula, bears traces of our entanglement with our surroundings, and these traces define a collective voice in modern poetry independent of the more specific influences and backgrounds of the poets themselves. In This Compost Rasula surveys both the convictions asserted by American poets and the poetics they develop in their craft, all with an eye toward an emerging ecological worldview.Rasula begins by examining poets associated with Black Mountain College in the 1950s―Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, and Robert Duncan―and their successors. But This Compost extends to include earlier poets like Robinson Jeffers, Ezra Pound, Louis Zukofsky, Kenneth Rexroth, and Muriel Rukeyser, as well as Clayton Eshleman, Gary Snyder, Michael McClure, and other contemporary poets. Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson also make appearances. Rasula draws this diverse group of poets together, uncovering how the past is a "compost" fertilizing the present. He looks at the heritage of ancient lore and the legacy of modern history and colonial violence as factors contributing to ecological imperatives in modern poetry.This Compost restores the dialogue between poetic language and the geophysical, biological realm of nature that so much postmodern discourse has sought to silence. It is a fully developed, carefully argued book that deals with an underrepresented element in modern American culture, where the natural world and those who write about it have been greatly neglected in contemporary literary history and theory.

Product Description: The sites of inspiration documented in this book range from nineteenth century linguistic theory to postmodern strategies of conceptual writing, encompassing well known instances of modernist poetics (Mallarmé, Pound, Olson) alongside obscure but revealing figures like Otto Nebel and Henri-Martin Barzun...read more

Product Description: Poetry. HOT WAX, OR, PSYCHE'S DRIP is a long poem germinated in if not completely hatched in the toreador momentum of the Dark Reagan Era when the author was living in Los Angeles, immersed in the study of cybernetics and information theory, and noticing in peripheral vision the citywide micro-explosion of the porn industry which has now overtaken the planet, "churning away in Tinker Bell's Hard Drive...read more

Product Description: An analysis of the sustaining vitality behind contemporary American poetry from 1975 to the 2003, these 12 essays examine both exemplary innovators and the social context in which innovation is resisted, acclaimed, or taken for granted.

Product Description: When works such as Joyce's Finnegans Wake and Stein's Tender Buttons were first introduced, they went so far beyond prevailing linguistic standards that they were widely considered "unreadable," if not scandalous. Jed Rasula and Steve McCaffery take these and other examples of twentieth-century avant-garde writing as the starting point for a collection of writings that demonstrates a continuum of creative conjecture on language from antiquity to the present...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Book by Rasula, Jed