Arresting poetry: kitsch, totality, expression -- Poetic diction and the substance of kitsch -- Miscreant: dialectics and the persistence of the commonplace -- Live burial -- Illiterature -- Queer idylls: imposture, inversion, unknowing -- Kitsching the cantos: totality, fascism, and le paradis artificiel -- Junk: a shopper's guide to poetic language (and the New York school) -- Inventing cliches: the lost legacy of Baudelaire's Muddy Halo. |