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“From a Photograph.” By George Oppen, from New Collected Poems, copyright © 1962 by George Oppen. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
“The Red Wheelbarrow.” By William Carlos Williams, from The Collected Poems: vol. 1: 1909–1939, copyright © 1938 by New Directions Publishing Corp. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
“Excerpt.” By Susan Howe, from Pierce-Arrow, copyright © 1999 by Susan Howe. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp. Exerpts from Lorine Niedecker, Collected Works, copyright © 2002. Reprinted by permission of University of California Press.
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A version of chapter 1 was published as “Petalbent Devils: Louis Zukofsky, Lorine Niedecker, and the Surrealist Praying Mantis,” Modernism/Modernity 13, no. 2 (2006): 325–347. Copyright © 2006 The Johns Hopkins University Press. Reprinted with permission by The Johns Hopkins University Press.
A version of chapter 2 was published as “At Clark Coolidge: Allegory and the Early Works,” American Literary History 13, no. 2 (2001): 295–316.
Part of chapter 3 was published as “Mobilizing Forms: Lyric, Scrolling Device, and Assembly Lines in P. Inman’s ‘nimr,’” in Mark Jeffries, ed., New Definitions of Lyric: Theory, Technology, and Culture, 3–15 (Levittown, Pa.: Garland, 1998).
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Peter Inman, for permission to quote from Think of One, copyright © 1986.
Myung Mi Kim, for permission to quote from Dura, copyright © 1998.
Craig Dworkin, for permission to quote from Strand, copyright © 2005.
Charles Bernstein, for permission to quote from A Poetics, copyright © 1992.
Clark Coolidge, for permission to quote from Own Face, copyright © 1978; Polaroid © 1975; Quartz Hearts, copyright © 1978; Smithsonian Depositions/Subject to a Film, copyright © 1980; Space, copyright © 1970; The Maintains, copyright © 1974.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Golston, Michael.
Poetic machinations : allegory, surrealism, and postmodern poetic form / Michael Golston.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-231-16430-6 (cloth : acid-free paper)—ISBN 978-0-231-53863-3 (ebook)
1. American poetry—20th century—History and criticism. 2. Allegory. 3. Surrealism (Literature) 4. Poetics. I. Title.
PS323.5.G65 2015
811'.509—dc23
2014045626
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