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... that are quite literally too big to read—from experimental novels to television, film, and video games—signals that the megatext is an emergent form native to the era of neoliberalism. But what happens to other long forms, such as the twentieth‐century long poem, when written in an era of megatextuality? Rachel...

...Caitlin E. Newcomer This essay examines Claudia Rankine's long poem Plot (2001) in light of its status as one of a number of postsixties poetic texts authored by women that explore complicated questions surrounding the relationships among maternity, the female body, and innovative poetics. Plot...

...Casie Legette This essay examines how the long poems of Lord Byron and Percy Shelley were excerpted in mid-nineteenth-century anthologies to consider the relation between the long history of lyric ascendancy and particular moments when long, complex poems were quite literally reduced to lyric...

... reinflect. In this way it helps us to see the stakes of a collagist long poem in our time. The essay concludes by suggesting that Deepstep , while embracing the art of disjunction characteristic of contemporary culture, at the same time surpasses this art through an innovative practice of drawing...

.... Ammons summed up their ongoing agon in a note after a visit to New Haven in 1973: “Harold wants me to be intense, mad, consistently high. I want to be ordinary, casual, a man of this world.” This essay examines their decades-long dialogue in letters, poems, and essays. © 2012 by University of Oklahoma...

... that gives shape to illness and loss is Alan Chong Lau's “my ship does not need a helmsman.” It adopts the metaphor of journey to speak about the course of an illness and the prospect of death. The speaker is dying far from home. In short lines the poem creates discontinuities even as it opens long vistas...

... : Cambridge University Press . Lehman David . 1999 . The Last Avant-Garde: The Making of the New York School of Poets . New York : Anchor . McHale Brian . 2000 . “How (Not) to Read Postmodernist Long Poems: The Case of Ashbery's ‘The Skaters.’ ” Poetics Today 21 ( 3 ): 561 – 90...

... Jakob Skei Hans H. . Columbia : University of South Carolina Press , 2004 . 32 - 43 . Print . Lowe E.J. Locke on Human Understanding . New York : Routledge , 1995 . Print . McHale Brian . The Obligation Toward the Difficult Whole: Postmodernist Long Poems...

... the "civilities" of the pastoral "style." "Fantasia on 'The Nut-Brown Maid the long poem that concludes House- boat Days, is remarkable for the tension it maintains between the pastoral and the aristocratic.13 It is a tension that Ashbery, I will argue, discovers also in "The Nut-Brown Maid...

.... Seeing his reading as a parallel to Dorn's meditative form, he describes "The Land Below" as "a desultory long poem of diverse mate- rials and many voices—the voice, in fact, of primary importance, as always in his poems, modulating/contrasting with the meditative movement, the journey through...

... (such as ‘Tidbit’ or ‘Shuffle’) that populate the long poem” (2007, 77). 43. On the importance of this dialogue with the reader, see Costello 1982. MIXED FEELINGS 115 Duchamp: the “snapshot effect” of Roussel’s pun machine rendered it a kind of time...

..., The color in the petal Is merely light and that's refraction: A word, that's the poem. (CP 268-69) This passage is taken from a long, masterful confessional narrative tellingly entitled "The Morning of the Poem." It is helpful in understanding Schuyler to keep always...

... here, not only because some of his mock-pastoral poems depict kinky sexual acts in pastures, but also because he eventually longed to escape New York. This lat- 180 GENRE ter tendency developed when the artistic scene he helped nurture began to code his every move...

..., but he was also forced to begin the long process of disen- tangling the actual woman from 'the image he had made' of her" (275). The "Helen poems" indicate that the "disentangling" was a process never concluded. Again, biographical "evidence" complicates rather than renders more easily...

...) The poem on this subject that has received the most attention is “V” (1985), a long piece that provoked controversy for its use of expletives when a recording was aired on Channel 4. The poem describes a series of graffitied headstones (including one of his parents) to explore racial and economic conflicts...

..., “all day long, praises are lavished on your sound painting, but attention is paid to the silent poem at the side.”2 And Chen Dewu (circa 279) advised readers to “chant softly a sound painting in the face of a silent poem, and traces of the image are revealed.”22 In the last two cases...

...- graphic Guide is also an indispensable resource. 28 GENRE Hughes's poems continued to wander. His late long poem, Ask Your Mama, written in the aftermath of the Newport Jazz Festival riot of 1961 (Saul 130-31), is based on the Dozens, the African-American...

.... The poem’s retrospective survey eventually comes full circle to quote towards its end some lines from its beginning: towards the little town on the hill — the crystal- formation? — how long ago was it we said that? do you remember? — And now that you’ve remembered...

... longs. The poem is playful: “grove is in the heart,” citing the old banger by Deee-Lite, but the grieving heart is also in a grove, where the grooves in the wood that signal the time of the tree's life form a protective enclosure, a space of rapture, perhaps a remembered place of togetherness...

...Nathan Suhr-Sytsma Perlow Seth , The Poem Electric: Technology and the American Lyric , Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2018 . 288 pp. $27.00 paperback. Copyright © 2019 by University of Oklahoma 2019 Genre, Vol. 52, No. 3 December 2019 DOI 10.1215/00166928...