LEADER 03153nam 2200601 a 450 001 9910453935603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8173-8224-0 035 $a(CKB)1000000000537509 035 $a(EBL)438217 035 $a(OCoLC)614555918 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000254741 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11239101 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000254741 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10208507 035 $a(PQKB)10812769 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC438217 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse8891 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL438217 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10237186 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000537509 100 $a20030318d2004 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSyncopations$b[electronic resource] $ethe stress of innovation in contemporary American poetry /$fJed Rasula 210 $aTuscaloosa $cUniversity of Alabama Press$dc2004 215 $a1 online resource (324 p.) 225 1 $aModern and contemporary poetics 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8173-1302-8 311 $a0-8173-5030-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [291]-304) and index. 327 $aContents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Introduction; 1. Women, Innovation, and "Improbable Evidence"; 2. Seeing Double: The Grapes of Dysraphism; 3. News and Noise: Poetry and Distortion; 4. The Catastrophe of Charm; 5. Literacy Effects: Handling the Fiction, Nursing the Wounds; 6. Ethnopoetics and the Pathology of Modernism; 7. Every Day Another Vanguard; 8. Experiment as a Claim of the Book: Twenty Different Fruits on One Different Tree; 9. To Moisten the Atmosphere: Notes on Clayton Eshleman; 10. "Riddle Iota Sublime": Ronald Johnson's ARK 327 $a11. Taking Out the Tracks: Robin Blaser's Syncopation 12. Syncope, Cupola, Pulse (for Nathaniel Mackey); Works Cited; Index 330 $aMakes a case for innovation as the generative and thematic force in American poetry of the late 20th century. Syncopations is an analysis of the sustaining vitality behind contemporary American poetry from 1975 to the present day by one of the most astute observers and critics in the field. The 12 essays reflect Jed Rasula's nearly 30 years of advocacy on behalf of ""opening the field"" of American poetry. From the Beats and the Black Mountain poets in the 1950's and 1960's to the impact of language poetry, the specter of an avant-garde has haunted the administrative centers of poetic conservation 410 0$aModern and contemporary poetics. 606 $aAmerican poetry$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aExperimental poetry, American$xHistory and criticism 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAmerican poetry$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aExperimental poetry, American$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a811/.54 700 $aRasula$b Jed$0878926 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910453935603321 996 $aSyncopations$92492847 997 $aUNINA