03060nam 2200637Ia 450 991082187500332120200520144314.00-8173-8643-2(CKB)3170000000060487(EBL)1180094(OCoLC)843200972(SSID)ssj0000873478(PQKBManifestationID)11455395(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000873478(PQKBWorkID)10866439(PQKB)10335072(OCoLC)845050919(MdBmJHUP)muse19103(Au-PeEL)EBL1180094(CaPaEBR)ebr10701230(MiAaPQ)EBC1180094(EXLCZ)99317000000006048720121015d2013 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrFieldworks from place to site in postwar poetics /Lytle Shaw1st ed.Tuscaloosa University of Alabama Press20131 online resource (396 p.)Modern and contemporary poeticsDescription based upon print version of record.0-8173-5732-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: the penning of the field -- Boring location: from place to site in Williams and Smithson -- Olson's archives: fieldwork in new American poetry -- Everyday archaic: the space of ethnopoetics -- Baraka's Newark: performing the black arts -- Nonsite Bolinas: presence in the poets' polis -- Smithson's "Judd": androids in the expanded field -- Smithson's prose: the grounds of genre -- Faulting description: Mayer, Coolidge, and the site of scientific authority -- Docents of discourse: the logic of dispersed sites -- Afterword: measuring sites, unbinding measures.Fieldworks offers a historical account of the social, rhetorical, and material attempts to ground art and poetry in the physicality of a site.Arguing that place-oriented inquiries allowed poets and artists to develop new, experimental models of historiography and ethnography, Lytle Shaw draws out the shifting terms of this practice from World War II to the present through a series of illuminating case studies. Beginning with the alternate national genealogies unearthed by William Carlos Williams in Paterson and Charles Olson in Gloucester, Shaw demonstrates how Modern & Contemporary PoeticsAmerican poetry20th centuryHistory and criticismPlace (Philosophy) in literatureSetting (Literature)PoeticsHistory20th centuryAmerican poetryHistory and criticism.Place (Philosophy) in literature.Setting (Literature)PoeticsHistory811/.5409358Shaw Lytle1721815MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910821875003321Fieldworks4121697UNINA