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• The speech-force of language
• On the way to Yucatan
• The Olson Codex.

• The speech-force of language
• On the way to Yucatan
• The Olson Codex.

This exploration of the influence of Mayan hieroglyphics on the great American poet Charles Olson (1910-1970) is an important document in the history of New World verse. Olson spent six months in the Yucatan in 1951 studying Maya culture and language, an interlude that has been largely overlooked by students of his work. Like Olson and Robert Creeley, Olson's disciple who published Olson's letters from Mexico, the poet Dennis Tedlock taught at the University of Buffalo. Unlike his two predecessors, Tedlock was also a scholar of Maya language and culture, renowned for his translations from indigenous American languages, notably the Popul Vuh, the Maya creation story. In The Olson Codex, Tedlock describes and examines Olson's efforts to decipher Mayan hieroglyphics, giving Olson's work in Mexico the place it deserves within twentieth-century poetry and poetics.
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First published almost fifty years ago and long out of print, The Shoshoneans is a classic American travelogue about the Great Basin and Plateau region and the people who inhabit it, never before-or since-documented in such striking and memorable fashion. Neither a book of journalism nor a work of poetry, this powerful collaboration represents the wild wandering of a white poet and black photographer in Civil Rights era (also Vietnam War era) America through a part of the indigenous West that had resisted prior incursions. The expanded edition offers a wealth of supplemental material, much of it archival, which includes poetry, correspondence, the lecture "The Poet, the People, the Spirit, " and the essay "Ed Dorn in Santa Fe.".
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Bruce Andrews and Charles Bernstein's L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E: The Complete Facsimile makes available in print all twelve of the newsletter's original issues along with three supplementary issues.

• "The replacement of ourself with ourselves": the making of LEGEND as a five-pointed star / Matthew Hofer and Michael Golston
• LEGEND / Bruce Andrews, Charles Bernstein, Ray DiPalma, Steve McCaffery, and Ron Silliman
• Appendix one. re: re: legend
• A new five-way collaboration / by Bruce Andrews, Charles Bernstein, Ray DiPalma,Steve McCaffery, and Ron Silliman
• Appendix two. excerpts from the authors correspondence.

"Conceived in 1976 and published in 1980, LEGEND exemplifies the political and linguistic commitments of then-nascent Language writing. Coauthored by Bruce Andrews, Charles Bernstein, Ray DiPalma, Steve McCaffery, and Ron Silliman, the work was composed on typewriters and developed through the mail. The twenty-six poems of the volume bring together every possible permutation of collaborative authorship in one-, two-, three-, and five-author combinations, revealing the evolution of distinctive styles against and in conversation with others. Along with a complete reproduction of the original text, LEGEND: The Complete Facsimile in Context includes a critical introduction by editors Matthew Hofer and Michael Golston, a generous selection of material from the authors' correspondence, and a new collaborative piece by the authors. This book will be an essential resource to students and scholars in twentieth-century poetry and poetics"-- Provided by publisher.

• Cover
• Half title
• Title
• Copyright
• Table of Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Preface by Eileen Myles
• Introduction: "Until the dark hours are done"
• A Note on the Text
• Part 1. "a living that counted"
• Chapter 1. Spring 1955-August 1956
• Chapter 2. January 1957-August 1957
• Chapter 3. September 1957-December 1957
• Part 2. "Absent Verse Forms"
• Chapter 4. January 1960-May 1963
• Chapter 5. October 1963-July 1965
• Chapter 6. August 1965-November 1969
• Part 3. "What can I do but shine / in memory"
• Chapter 7. January 1970-February 1971

• Chapter 8. April 1972-January 1976
• Chapter 9. July 1984-January 1997
• Glossary of Names
• Bibliography
• Index

• Part 1. What is poetics?
• An art of addition, an Eddic return
• Statement on poetics: pleasures, polemics, practices, stakes
• From Late Arcade
• Part 2. Critical interventions
• Poetics today
• The material and medium of language
• Toward transformation: the contextual turn in US poetry
• "To make from outrage islands of compassion": Denise Levertov's bridge-poetics of eye-witnessing in the context of her friendship with Robert Duncan
• Part 3. Cross-cultural imperatives
• Ethnos and graphos
• White mischief: language, life, logic, luck, and white people
• Transcendental tabby
• Part 4. Digital, capital, and institutional frames
• The codex is broken
• Empire aesthetics: it's not the point, it's the platform - Detroit model
• Now that's a poem
• Vito Acconci, conceptual writing, and poetic nominalism
• Coda. The united divisions of poetry.

The essays in Inciting Poetics provide provocative answers to the book's opening question, ""What are poetics now?"" Authored by some of the most important contemporary poets and critics, the essays present new theoretical and practical approaches to poetry and poetics that address current topics and approaches in the field as well as provide fresh readings of a number of canonical poets. The four sections-""What is Poetics?, "" ""Critical Interventions, "" ""Cross-Cultural Imperatives, "" and ""Digital, Capital, and Institutional Frames""-create a basis on which both experienced readers and newcomers can build an understanding of how to think and write about poetry. The diverse voices throughout the collection are both informative and accessible and offer a rich exploration of multiple approaches to thinking and writing about poetry today.
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Bruce Andrews and Charles Bernstein released the first issue of the poetics newsletter L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E in 1978, launching language-centered writing. The Language Letters reveals Language poetry in its nascent stage, with letters written by Andrews, Bernstein, Ron Silliman, and others in intense and intimate conversation regarding poetry and poetics; the contemporary poetry and arts scenes; publication venues, journals, and magazines; and issues of community, camaraderie, and friendship. The editors have included two critical introductions, two interviews with Bernstein and Andrews, and appendices that include a previously unpublished essay on Larry Eigner by Robert Grenier and short biographies of the major authors. Written between 1970 and 1978, these letters detail the development of the concepts and styles that came to define one of the most influential movements in post-1960s writing. Scholars, writers, and students of poetry will find this collection essential to understanding this important period of literary history.
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The transnational modernist Mina Loy (1882-1966) embodied the avant-garde in many literary and artistic media. This book positions her as a theorist of the avant-garde and of what it means to be an artist. Foregrounding Loy's critical interrogation of Futurist, Dadaist, Surrealist, and "Degenerate" artisthood, and exploring her poetic legacies today, Curious Disciplines reveals Loy's importance in an entirely novel way. Examining the primary texts produced by those movements themselves-their manifestos, magazines, pamphlets, catalogues, and speeches-Sarah Hayden uses close readings of Loy's poetry, prose, polemics, and unpublished writings to trace her response to how these movements wrote themselves, collectively, into being.
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First published in 1976, this beautiful, interactive collaboration is a unique work of book art in which Marisol's monumental pop-art sculptures face the blocks of Creeley's prose poems. The new introduction by Creeley scholar Stephen Fredman describes how the poet's autobiographical prose poetry arose in conversation with images of Marisol's equally autobiographical sculptures. In addition to the introduction, this edition features an appendix of newly discovered material, much of it found in Creeley's own copy of the original edition of Presences. These include postcards and letters from Marisol, designer William Katz (who brought the poet and artist together), Mexican poet Octavio Paz, and several university professors. The material in the appendix allows the editor to reveal the genesis of Presences as a collaborative work of art involving three creators: artist, designer, and poet.
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• The pragmatist sublime
• "Seas of desire": Duncan and surrealism 1939-1941
• Extending the field: Whitehead and the poetics of organism
• The plurality of "what is": the poetics and politics of Duncan's multiphasic sublime
• Architect of excess.

This study examines the theoretical underpinnings of Robert Duncan's poetry and poetics. The author's overriding concern is Duncan's understanding of excess in relation to poetry and the philosophies of Alfred North Whitehead, William James, and John Dewey.
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• Introduction
• Abbreviations
• The pragmatist sublime
• "Seas of desire": Duncan and surrealism 1939-1941
• Extending the field: Whitehead and the poetics of organism
• The plurality of "what is": the poetics and politics of Duncan's multiphasic sublime
• Architect of excess.

This study examines the theoretical underpinnings of Robert Duncan's poetry and poetics. The author's overriding concern is Duncan's understanding of excess in relation to poetry and the philosophies of Alfred North Whitehead, William James, and John Dewey.
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In October 1949 the poet William Carlos Williams received a letter from a young man from India who was studying engineering at Stanford University but wanted to write poetry. Williams was intrigued enough to write back. Their intense epistolary relationship, lasting almost a decade and little known up to now, is chronicled in this edition of their letters. Rayaprol returned to India and lived a quiet life as a civil engineer. Yet his commitment to poetry, spurred by Dr. Williams's long-distance mentoring, never faltered, and the three collections he published eventually gained him a lasting position in the canon of postcolonial Anglophone poetry in India. Rich in personal details, feelings, and moods, the Rayaprol-Williams correspondence is particularly significant as it provides valuable information about transnational literary modernism in the context of American cultural influence during the Cold War as well as the role played by US philanthropic organizations and their relationship to overt and covert CIA operations in India.
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• Book cover; Half title; Series page; Title; Copyright; Table of Contents; Foreword by Arvind Krishna Mahrotra; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; A Note on the Text; Introduction; The Letters of Srinivas Rayaprol and William Carlos Williams, 1949-1958; Afterword by Paul Mariani; Appendix A: The Letters of Srinivas Rayaprol and James Loughlin, 1957-1962; Appendix B: The Letters of Srinivas Rayaprol and Poetry (Chicago), 1954-1959; Appendix C: Poems Enclosed to the Letters; Appendix D: Anatomy of a Magazine: East and West (1956-1959); Notes; Index.

In October 1949 the poet William Carlos Williams received a letter from a young man from India who was studying engineering at Stanford University but wanted to write poetry. Williams was intrigued enough to write back. Their intense epistolary relationship, lasting almost a decade and little known up to now, is chronicled in this edition of their letters. Rayaprol returned to India and lived a quiet life as a civil engineer. Yet his commitment to poetry, spurred by Dr. Williams's long-distance mentoring, never faltered, and the three collections he published eventually gained him a lasting position in the canon of postcolonial Anglophone poetry in India. Rich in personal details, feelings, and moods, the Rayaprol-Williams correspondence is particularly significant as it provides valuable information about transnational literary modernism in the context of American cultural influence during the Cold War as well as the role played by US philanthropic organizations and their relationship to overt and covert CIA operations in India.
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Edited by poet and scholar Ryan Dobran, this volume of correspondence between the American poet Charles Olson (1910-1970) and the English poet J. H. Prynne (b. 1936) sheds light on a little-known but incredibly influential aspect of twentieth-century transatlantic literary culture. Never before published, the letters capture their shared passion for knowledge as well as their distinct writing styles. Written between 1961 and Olson's death in 1970, the letters display the mutual admiration and intimacy that developed between the two poets after Prynne initiated their exchange when pursuing work for the literary magazine Prospect. This work illustrates how Olson and Prynne influenced each other, and it represents an important step toward understanding their contributions to poetics on both sides of the Atlantic.
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• Front Cover; Recencies Series Page; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Introduction;
• Chapter 1: 1961;
• Chapter 2: 1962;
• Chapter 3: 1963;
• Chapter 4: 1964;
• Chapter 5: 1965;
• Chapter 6: 1966;
• Chapter 7: 1967-1970; Bibliography; Index.

Edited by poet and scholar Ryan Dobran, this volume of correspondence between the American poet Charles Olson (1910-1970) and the English poet J. H. Prynne (b. 1936) sheds light on a little-known but incredibly influential aspect of twentieth-century transatlantic literary culture. Never before published, the letters capture their shared passion for knowledge as well as their distinct writing styles. Written between 1961 and Olson's death in 1970, the letters display the mutual admiration and intimacy that developed between the two poets after Prynne initiated their exchange when pursuing work for the literary magazine Prospect. This work illustrates how Olson and Prynne influenced each other, and it represents an important step toward understanding their contributions to poetics on both sides of the Atlantic.
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Robert Duncan's nine lectures on Charles Olson, delivered intermittently from 1961 to 1983, explore the modernist literary background and influences of Olson's influential 1950 essay "Projective Verse." These transcribed talks pay tribute to Olson and expand our knowledge of Duncan's vision of modernist writing.
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The correspondence of Robert Duncan and Charles Olson is one of the foundational literary exchanges of twentieth-century American poetry. The 130 letters collected in this volume begin in 1947 just after the two poets first meet in Berkeley, California, and continue to Olson's death in January 1970. Both men initiated a novel stance toward poetry, and they matched each other with huge accomplishments, an enquiring, declarative intelligence, wide-ranging interests in history and occult literature, and the urgent demand to be a poet. More than a literary correspondence, An Open Map gives insight into an essential period of poetic advancement in cultural history.
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