Attention equals life : the pursuit of the everyday in contemporary poetry and culture / / Andrew Epstein

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910798600503321
• Autore: Epstein Andrew <1969->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, NY : , : Oxford University Press, , 2016
• ISBN: 0-19-063172-4; 0-19-060896-X; 0-19-997215-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (385 p.)
• Disciplina: 811/.5409355
• Soggetti: American poetry - 20th century - History and criticism; American poetry - 21st century - History and criticism; Civilization in literature; Banality (Philosophy) in literature; Realism in literature
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction: the poetics of everyday life since 1945 -- The crisis of attention, everyday life theory, and contemporary poetry -- "Each day so different, yet still alike": James Schuyler and the elusive everyday -- "Tthe tiny invites attention": A. R. Ammons's quotidian muse -- Writing the maternal everyday: Bernadette Mayer and her "daughters" (Hoa Nguyen, Susan Holbrook, Laynie Browne) -- "There is no content here, only dailiness": poetry as critique of everyday life in Ron Silliman's Ketjak -- Everyday life projects in contemporary poetry and culture (Kenneth Goldsmith, Claudia Rankine, Brenda Coultas, Harryette Mullen) -- Conclusion: Claudia Rankine's citizen and beyond.
• Sommario/riassunto: Attention Equals Life examines why a quest to pay attention to daily life has increasingly become a central feature of both contemporary American poetry and the wider culture of which it is a part.