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Acker, Kathy, 4, 7, 18, 20, 25, 79, 85, 299, 313, 316; Empire of the Senseless, 314–15; Great Expectations, 169; “Ugly,” 177–84
Adorno, Theodor W.: and lyric poetry, 209–10; and Macherey’s work, 213n12
AFRICAN AMERICAN POETICS, 335–44; and abolitionist literature, 336, 339; and Baraka’s work, 13, 31, 126, 372; and Black Arts movement, 393; and identity politics, 27; and Mullen’s work, 335; and popular culture, 335, 339–43; and Thomas’s work, 393; and Umbra workshop, 393
A Hundred Posters (ed. Davies), 19
Alferi, Pierre, 30, 303–12; and cinema, 303; and performance, 307–9; and referentiality, 309–11; and rhythm, 305–11; and retrospection, 304–5, 308–9, 311; and semantics, 306; and sentences, 303–11; and syntax, 306–7, 310
alienation, 12, 31, 57, 237, 249, 353, 364, 365, 368
Allen, Donald: and The New American Poetry, 167
Althusser, Louis, 30; and ideology, 155; and social formation, 231; and subjectivity, 209
Amnasan, Michael, 20, 30, 294, 354
Anderson, Michael, 21
Andrews, Bruce, 3, 17, 24, 46, 88, 149, 185–96, 237; as editor of L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, 3, 17, 46, 185; on Language writing, 185; on public sphere, 195–96; on social aspects of language, 186–91; on totality, 185, 186, 188, 189–92, 195–96
Antin, David, 22
anti-Semitism, 240–55; and Céline’s work, 240, 242–47, 254–55; and Pound’s work, 240–42, 245, 248–55
architecture: and Philip Johnson’s work, 329–31; and Mies’s work, 326, 328–30
Aristotle, 54; and Chicago Aristotelians, 119–21, 124; Poetics, 120
Armantrout, Rae, 6, 8, 22, 24, 148, 197–201
Armstrong, Louis, 28
Arnold, Matthew, 248
Ashbery, John, 30, 146, 282, 289; “Farm Implements and Rutabagas in a Landscape,” 397–409; “The Skaters,” 407–8; and Warhol, 397–409, 411
Atwood, Margaret, 409
aura, disappearance of, 186–87, 329
Austin, J. L., 207
authority: Arnold’s concept of, 248; and authoritarianism, 18, 212, 240, 249, 252, 329, 379, 381; of authorship, 18, 33, 88; contestation of, 88, 193; of expository style, 49, 51; of lyric poetry, 208, 210–12; and mainstream poetry, 199–200; Pound’s concept of, 249–53; and psychoanalysis, 57–58; of public discourse, 203
authorship: authority of, 18, 33, 88; construction of, 28, 31; and Creeley’s work, 29, 423; and Dickinson’s work, 43–44; and intentionality, 167; and Lemaître’s work, 217; and postmodernism, 13; and social context, 192; and Stein’s work, 28; and Whitman’s work, 40, 43
automatic writing, 203
autonomy: of literature, 126, 159, 160, 161, 165–66, 187; of monumental architecture, 329–31; of musical works, 416, 418; of self, 385; of social levels, 231
AVANT-GARDE, 111–18, 125, 170, 293, 325, 392, 418; and architecture, 327, 330, 331; and cinema, 289, 294; and identity politics, 378, 383; Jameson’s critique of, 229; and lettrism, 215; and linguistics, 111; manifestos, 11, 46; modernist, 12; and Poetics Journal, 1, 5, 6, 11, 19; postmodernist, 12; postwar American, 126; and private language, 203; Russian, 126, 320; and theory of reading, 37
Avercamp, Hendrick, 408
Bacon, Francis, 49
Bakhtin, Mikhail, 6, 202, 207–8, 210, 321; and dialogism, 208; and heteroglossia, 207
Balzac, Honoré de, 290; “Sarrasine,” 172
Baraka, Amiri, 13, 31, 126, 372
Barthes, Roland, 5, 14, 15, 37, 65, 303, 408; S/Z, 172
Bataille, George, 4, 20, 79, 80, 81, 177, 347–48; Story of the Eye, 83–85
Beals, Jennifer, 340
Beethoven, Ludwig van, 242, 415
Behan, Brendan, 371
Bellamy, Dodie, 4, 20, 28, 30, 79, 177, 313–19, 422; and narrative, 313, 314; and New Narrative, 313–19; and pornography, 313–19; and queer, 313, 316–17; and sexuality, 313–19
Beltrametti, Franco, 9
Benedetti, David, 31
Benjamin, Walter, 143
Benson, Steve, 4, 16, 20, 27, 37–45, 79, 162, 257, 360; and material text, 37; and performance, 16, 37–45; “Translations,” 44
Benveniste, Émile, 209, 321, 347
Bergson, Henri, 170
Berkeley Poetry Conference, 15, 158, 163
Bernheimer, Alan, 22
Bernstein, Charles, 3, 5, 17, 25, 28, 46–54, 149, 154, 185, 198, 257, 270, 282, 357; as editor of L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, 3, 17, 46, 185; on method, 46, 48–50, 52–53; and philosophy vs. literature, 46–49, 52–54; The Sophist, 275–78; on Wittgenstein, 46, 48, 53
Berssenbrugge, Mei-Mei, 6, 171
Big Deal (ed. Barbara Baracks), 19
Binswanger, Ludwig, 362
Black Arts Movement, 393
Black Mountain poets, 126
Bloom, Harold, 98
Bonnard, Pierre, 371
Boone, Bruce, 213n17, 377n5; and New Narrative, 4, 20, 22, 79, 169
Borges, Jorge Luis, 330
Bourdon, David, 410n11
Bowie, David, 342
Bradbury, Ray, 395
Brakhage, Stan, 289
Brazil, David, 257
Bromige, David, 17, 22–23, 169–70
Brooks, Cleanth, 208
Brown, Earle, 124
Brown, Norman O., 57
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 98, 100, 102, 105–7
Bulatov, Erik, 8
Bulgarin, F. V., 127
Burger, Mary, 5
Burke, Carolyn, 18, 63–64, 170; on feminism, 170
Cage, John, 119, 123–24, 414, 415, 420
capitalism: and Language writing, 295; Mandel’s theory of late, 236; and reification, 232–33, 237, 238; shift from classical to late, 356; and workplace, 353, 356–57
Carroll, Lewis: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, 59–61
Cavalcanti, Giovanni, 250
Celan, Paul, 415
Céline, Louis-Ferdinand, 240, 242–47, 254–55; Death on the Installment Plan, 243–45; Journey to the End of Night, 242–43
Ceravolo, Joseph, 4; “Migratory Noon [Moon],” 141–55
Cervantes, Miguel de, 130, 135
chance procedures, 121–24, 414, 420
Chernoff, Maxine, 22
Chicago Aristotelians, 119–21, 124
Child, Lydia Maria, 336
Chinese ideograms, 249
CINEMA: Alferi’s theory of, 303; and Neo-Benshi performance, 289; and race, 337–39, 340; and Sonbert’s work, 289–93, 298; Soviet, 289, 294
Cixous, Hélène, 5, 55, 64, 95, 303
CLASS: and Bakhtin’s theory of literature, 208; and experience, 388, 391; and identity, 27, 294; Mouffe’s theory of, 389–90; and social categories, 389
closure, 87, 88, 95, 96, 155, 164, 185, 272, 309, 386
Coates, George: “The Way of How,” 111–15, 117
codes: cultural, 202, 204–5, 238; linguistic, 160; social, 191
Cody, John, 105
cognitive linguistics, 111–17, 141
cognitive mapping, 229
coherence, poetic, 141, 142, 144, 145, 152, 155
COLLECTIVISM, 421
Coleridge, S. T., 12
comic strips, 212n4, 384, 385, 387, 398, 400, 403, 405, 410n11
commercials, race in, 339, 342–43
commodity, 85, 356, 422; and commodity fetishism, 237; literature as, 158–59
CONCEPTUALISM, 13, 14, 17, 420; Soviet, 8, 320, 422
constructivism: and Meyerhold’s work, 264; and Poetics Journal, 2, 12, 29; and Silliman’s work, 173; and Soviet cinema, 294
consumerism: and closure, 386; and Longo’s work, 331–33; and O’Hara’s work, 367, 370–73, 375; and Pound’s work, 254; and Protestant ideology, 356
Coolidge, Clark, 20, 30, 161, 333; Mine: The One That Enters the Stories, 170
Cooper, Dennis, 4, 79, 85, 177, 316
Corder, Eileen, 22, 257, 258, 260–61, 267, 268n1
Crane, Margaret, 9
Creeley, Robert, 22, 28, 345–50, 423; “Robert Creeley and the Politics of the Person,” 423–24; “When he and I …,” 345–51
CRITICAL THEORY, 157, 158–68, 169, 173, 185–96, 229–39, 295, 299, 422, 425; and Adorno’s work, 209–10; and Benja-min’s work, 143; and Eagleton’s work, 15, 158, 164–65, 167; and Jameson’s work, 8, 20, 23, 24–25, 229–38, 270, 326
Croll, Morris, 49
cultural codes, 202, 204–5, 238
cultural dominant, Jameson’s theory of, 231–32
CULTURAL STUDIES, 1, 126, 202–14, 335–44, 367–77, 396, 421
cummings, e. e., 121
Dahlberg, Edward, 166
Dahlen, Beverly, 18; A Reading, 55–71; on desire, 60, 63, 67; on feminism, 55, 58, 63–64; on interminable text, 65–66; on Lacan, 55–57, 59, 63, 66, 69n18; on Oedipus complex, 55, 58, 61; on the unconscious, 59, 60, 62, 67, 68
Davidson, Dan, 30
Davidson, Michael, 16, 22, 24, 26, 30, 202–14, 298, 422; on cultural codes, 202, 204–5; on identity, 205; on lyric poetry, 202, 208–12; on private language, 202–13; on public language, 202–3, 205, 207, 209, 211; on surfers’ language, 202, 203–5
Davies, Alan, 16, 17, 25, 29, 51, 72–78, 93, 149, 299, 359, 423; on language as thinking, 72–78
Davies, Paul, 67
Davis, Bette, 374
Davis, Lydia, 22, 170; Story and Other Stories, 295
death, 61–62, 79, 81–82, 85, 100, 278, 385–86
Debord, Guy, 356
de Chirico, Giorgio, 398, 406, 409n3
de Laroque, Françoise, 18, 170–71 Deleuze, Gilles, 15, 303
democracy, 15, 251, 358, 390, 416
de Quincy, Thomas, 360
Derksen, Jeff, 26
Derrida, Jacques, 5, 14, 46, 72, 270, 303, 357–58
Descartes, René, 49
desire, 60, 63, 67, 129, 187, 194, 273, 307, 309, 324, 350, 362; in French feminism, 87, 88, 92, 95; and Longo’s work, 332, 333
device: literary, 88, 126–39, 143, 149, 152–55, 163; and meaning, 193
dialogism: Bakhtin’s theory of, 208; and Mies’s architecture, 328–29; and philosophical discourse, 53. See also heteroglossia; idioglossia; monologism
Dickens, Charles, 98; David Copperfield, 106–7
Dickinson, Emily, 4, 16, 28, 98–109; and Benson’s “Close Reading,” 41–44; and Howe’s My Emily Dickinson, 37; and private language, 202, 210–12
difference, linguistic, 66, 270
Dorn, Edward, 31
Dostoevsky, Fyodor, 127, 130, 136
Douglass, Frederick, 339, 341, 343
Dragomoshchenko, Arkadii, 26, 28, 31, 320–25
dreams, 129, 164, 165, 322–23, 353, 359–65, 362
Dreyer, Lynne, 18
Drucker, Johanna, 16, 24, 37, 215–24; on Dada, 215–16; on Lemaitre’s work, 215–24; on public language, 215–16, 218, 222–23 23
Duchamp, Marcel, 119, 123, 124, 326; “With Hidden Noise,” 327–29
DuPlessis, Rachel Blau, 18, 64
Eagleton, Terry, 15, 158, 164–67
economics: and Althusser’s work, 231; and Marx’s work, 247, 248–49; and modes of production, 230–31; and Pound’s work, 247–49, 251–52; and private language, 206–7; and time management, 354–57
Eigner, Larry, 4, 16; “streets, streets …,” 43
Eliot, T. S., 121, 143, 208, 371
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 48, 72, 99, 211
Ensslin, John, 229
envisionment, 141, 145–50, 152–53, 155
Epstein, Mikhail, 320
equivalence, principle of, in Jakobson’s poetics, 162, 164–65
Estrin, Jerry, 26, 326–34, 422; on architecture, 326, 329–31; on modernism vs. postmodernism, 326; on readymades, 327–29, 332, 333; on simulacra, 329, 330, 335; on subjectivity, 329, 333
Euripides, 120
Evans, Steve, 31
everyday life, 9, 126, 233, 326; and O’Hara’s work, 367, 368–71, 374, 375; “The Poetics of Everyday Life,” 422
evil in literature, 82, 83, 85, 240–43, 246–48, 253
Ewert, Mark, 318
existentialism, 72
EXPERIENCE: art as, 117; construction of, 187, 385, 387–88; extra-linguistic, 144–47; and postmodernism, 326; and referentiality, 309–11; and symposium on everyday life, 422; of reading, 154–55
expository style, critique of, 49–52
fame, 159
family: and Céline’s work, 243–46; and experience, 388; and private language, 206–7; and Sonbert’s work, 291; and writing, 386
fascism, 240–42, 245–46, 251–54, 333
Faust legend, 30, 93–94, 95–96
Feldman, Morton, 124
FEMINISM: and Acker’s work, 177; and Dahlen’s work, 55, 58, 63–64; and Dickinson’s work, 98–99, 105; French, 5, 18, 55, 87, 95; and Howe’s work, 98; and HOW(ever) journal, 171; and Loy’s work, 170; and philosophy, 423; and poetic form, 87, 88, 92, 94–95; and psychoanalysis, 63–64, 94–95; second-wave, 18; and Stein’s work, 98–99; and subjectivity, 345
Fenollosa, Ernest, 249
fetish: commodity, 158–59, 237; and Lemaître’s work, 215, 216, 223
Fillmore, Charles, 111; and envisionment, 145, 147; and frame semantics, 147
Finkelstein, Norman, 8, 28, 420–21
Fisher, Allen, 17, 25, 171, 299
Fitzsimons, Connie, 299
folklore, Russian, 9, 29, 421–22
form, narrative, 21, 33, 270, 271, 275, 384; and Harryman’s work, 225–26; and Rozanov’s work, 126; and Woolf’s work, 384
form, poetic: and expanded field, 15; as generative, 32–33, 90–91; holistic, 64; open vs. closed, 12–13, 16, 18, 22–23, 29, 87, 90, 96; organic, 126, 167; paratactic, 238; refusal of normative, 17
FORMALISM: and Language writing, 79; and New Criticism, 126; and New Formalism, 390; and Russian Formalism, 3–4, 87, 126–41, 143, 155, 163, 294
Foucault, Michel, 14, 50, 190, 362
foundation, philosophical, 304
frames, cultural and linguistic, 111–12, 147, 153, 174, 193; and Ceravolo’s work, 141, 144, 147–50; and Coates’s work, 111, 112–15, 117; and Olson’s work, 158; and Palmer’s work, 111, 115–17
free association, 21, 55–57, 64
FRENCH POETICS, 5, 14, 18, 26, 111, 170, 172, 215–24, 303–12; and feminism, 5, 18, 55, 87, 94–95; and lettrism, 215–23; and Oulipo, 5; and surrealism, 20, 26, 177, 203, 215, 216; Travail de poésie (ed. Royet-Journaud), 170–71
Freud, Sigmund: Dahlen’s reading of, 55–62, 66–67; and Loy’s work, 170; and theory of dreams, 362–64; and theories of reading, 37, 38
Friedman, Ed, 21, 161; Space Stations, 294–95
Frith, Fred, 9
Fuller, Margaret, 102
Gadamer, Hans-Georg, 16
Garland, Judy, 374
Gaudier-Brzeska, Henri, 249, 254
Gay, Michel, 27
gay literature: and Boone’s work, 213n17, 377n5; and New Narrative, 79; and O’Hara’s work, 367, 373–76
GENDER: and Creeley’s work, 345–50; and Dickinson’s work, 100, 103; and feminist poetics, 18–19; and French poetics, 18, 171; and slave narratives, 335–36; and Sonbert’s work, 291–92
genius, Pound’s doctrine of, 249, 250, 254
GENRE: and Bataille’s work, 79, 80, 83–85; cross-genre, 5, 13, 46; lyric, 18, 208–9; and method, 48, 52; and narrative, 225–28; and New Narrative, 18, 79; and Poe’s work, 79, 80–83; of poetics, 11, 13–14, 16; and Rozanov’s work, 131; Scalapino on, 272, 274, 275, 270; Shklovsky on, 130, 131; transgression of, 18, 20, 177
Gibson, William, 319
Ginsberg, Allen, 12–13, 159, 198, 346
Ginzburg, Carlo, 402
Gioia, Dana, 390
Giscombe, C. S., 257
Glück, Robert, 4–5, 7, 20, 22, 31, 79–86, 298; on death, 79, 81–82, 85; on evil, 82, 83, 85; on Gothic literature, 79, 80–81; and New Narrative, 4, 20, 22, 79; on pornography, 79, 80, 81, 84–85
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 131, 136, 242; Faust, 93–96, 126
Gorin, Jean-Pierre, 206–7, 212n4
Gorky, Maxim, 136
Gothic literature, 59, 79, 80–81
Gottlieb, Michael, 30
graffiti artists, 202
Grahn, Judy, 390
Graves, Robert, 348
Green, Paul, 26
Greenwald, Ted, 393
Griboyedov, Alexander, 45, 127
Guattari, Félix, 15, 28–29, 303, 421
Guest, Barbara, 9
Hacker, Marilyn, 390
Haggard, H. Ryder, 424
Hall, Diane Andrews, 7
Haraway, Donna, 335
Harlem Renaissance, 13
Harlow, Jean, 272
Harris, Kaplan, 5
Harryman, Carla, 4, 5, 6, 18, 22, 27, 79, 177, 257, 298, 358; and genre, 225; and narrative, 225–28; and nonnarrative, 225; and performativity, 225–28; “Realism,” 95; “Toy Boats,” 225–28
Hartley, George, 30, 229–39; on Althusser, 30, 230–31; on capitalism, 229, 231–33, 236–38; on Jameson’s theory of postmodernism, 229–35; on Language writing, 229, 235–38; on postmodern reification, 229, 230, 232–33, 236–38; on schizophrenia, 229–30, 232, 234–38; on simulacra, 233–36
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 80
Hecht, Anthony, 198
Hegel, G. W. F.: and lyric poetry, 208; and theory of history, 121; and totality, 231
hegemony, 49, 128, 186, 189, 195
Hejinian, Lyn, 18, 26, 28, 30, 87–97, 154, 185, 360, 361–62, 422; on closure, 87, 88, 95, 96; on desire, 87, 88, 92, 95; as editor of Tuumba Press, 2, 361; on Faust, 93–96; on French feminism, 87, 94–95; My Life, 88, 90, 155; on nonidentity of language and world, 87, 91–92, 96; on open form, 87–90, 96n1; “Resistance,” 88–89
Hemingway, Ernest, 277; The Green Hills of Africa, 271–72
Henderson, David, 393
Heraclitus, 12
Hernton, Calvin C., 393
Hesiod, 371
heteroglossia, 207, 212. See also dialogism; idioglossia; monologism
HISTORY: and Creeley’s work, 29; and cyclical vs. monumental, 62–63; and “end of history,” 26, 31, 390; and ideology, 158, 165; intellectual, 125; Marx’s theory of, 121, 391; and postmodernism, 233–34, 299, 369; publication, 420; and Pound’s work, 252
Hitler, Adolf, 212n3, 240–42, 245, 247, 253
Hocquard, Emmanuel, 26
Holiday, Billie, 367, 371–74, 376
Holocaust, 241
homology, critique of, 231, 236
Houston, Whitney, 340
Howe, Fanny, 6, 8, 18, 27, 171, 421
Howe, Susan, 6, 16, 18, 29, 198, 282, 423; on Brontë sisters, 98, 102, 105; on feminism, 98, 99, 105; My Emily Dickinson, 18, 37, 98–110
Hugo, Victor, 130
Husserl, Edmund, 321
Ibsen, Henrik, 292
iconicity: and Lemaître’s work, 215, 217–18, 221, 222
idealism, German, 72
identification, 6; Dahlen on, 61, 62; in Creeley’s work, 345–52
IDENTITY, 26, 27, 378–91, 420; and whites’ representation of black identity, 335–43. See also personhood; self; subjectivity
ideograms, Pound/Fenollosa’s theory of, 249
IDEOLOGY: Althusser’s theory of, 155; and close reading, 37; and critique of narrative, 228; and demand for coherence, 141, 155; and Dickinson’s work, 210–12; Eagleton’s theory of, 15, 158, 164–65; and experience, 145, 146; and history, 158, 165; and Longo’s work, 333; and lyric poetry, 210–12; and mainstream poetry, 197–201; and market for poetry, 159; and Olson’s discourse, 158, 166; and poetic production, 158–59; and private language, 203, 210, 212; and production of meaning, 187, 189; Protestant, 356; and protopolitical texts, 367, 369–70; Silliman on, 158–59; and Soviet folklore, 421; and Spicer’s work, 212; totalizing, 185, 195
idioglossia, 203, 206–7. See also dialogism; heteroglossia; monologism
imago mundi, in Olson’s work, 163–64, 167
imperialism, U.S., 167, 387, 395
improvisation: verbal, 37–45, 72–78; musical, 364–65, 414–18; and Poets Theater, 257–69; reading as, 88
indeterminacy, 13–14, 23, 67, 141, 144
indexicality, 3, 146, 230, 326
INTERTEXTUALITY, 30, 63–64, 93, 98–110, 172, 190
Iser, Wolfgang, 37
Isou, Isidore, 215
Jackson, Laura (Riding), 18, 53–54, 72
Jackson, Michael, 340
Jacobs, Ken, 416
Jakobson, Roman, 4, 66, 111, 159–62, 166, 174; “six functions” theory of, 158, 160–62
Jameson, Fredric, 8, 20, 23, 24–25, 229–38, 270, 326; and theory of cultural dominant, 231–32
Jarman, Mark, 390
Jarolim, Edie, 295
Jefferson, Thomas, 252
Johnson, James Weldon, 341, 343
Johnson, Ronald, 424
Johnson, Thomas H., 41
Jones, Hettie, 31
Joubert, Joseph, 248
Joyce, James, 98, 121, 216, 415, 421
Kafka, Franz, 364
Katz, Alex, 159
Kay, Paul, 111; and envisionment, 145–52; and Parsimony Principle, 141, 148–49, 152–55
Keithley, George, 159
Kennedy, John F., 6
Kenner, Hugh, 98
Khlebnikov, Velimir, 258
Killian, Kevin, 4, 20, 79, 177, 257, 318–19
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 338
Kleist, Heinrich von, 324
KNOWLEDGE, 9–10, 30–31, 94, 117, 119, 172, 346, 391, 397, 409, 423; forbidden, 55, 57, 59, 67; and Knowledge issue, 9–10, 25, 29–31; limits of, 397, 406–7; masculine, 349; and power, 94, 189; and schemas, 144; scientific, 264, 296; sensual, 318
Koch, Kenneth, 400
Kristeva, Julia, 5, 14, 58, 63, 303, 347; and abjection, 240
Kuchelbecker, Wilhelm, 127
Kuhn, Thomas, 49
Kyger, Joanne, 13
La Bas (ed. Douglas Messerli), 19
Lacan, Jacques, 18, 95, 350, 351; Dahlen’s reading of, 55, 56, 57, 59, 63, 66, 69n18; and Jameson’s theory of postmodernism, 229–30, 232, 234–35
Laclau, Ernesto, 30
Lakoff, George, 3, 15, 24, 111–18; and linguistic frames, 111–15, 117
LANGUAGE: and desire, 71, 95; and ideology, 203, 210, 212; and knowledge, 93–94; Marxist theory of, 15, 173; and mind, 72–77; as nonidentical to world, 87, 91–92, 96, 171; as patterned relations, 94, 303–12; and politics, 191, 195; as productive of activity, 92–93; and psychology, 92; and society, 186–88, 190, 421; as thinking, 72–78; the turn to, 5, 13–15, 17, 22, 23, 29–30, 72, 79, 169, 170, 225, 320; Whorf on, 94. See also semantics; syntax
L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E (ed. Andrews and Bernstein), 3, 17, 19, 22, 46, 185; The L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Book, 295
LANGUAGE WRITING, 13, 16, 17, 18, 19, 26, 27–28, 79, 169, 170, 173, 185, 197, 198, 235, 237–38, 257, 282–88, 295, 297, 303, 420; in Poetics Journal, 1, 2, 4, 5, 6–7, 13, 19, 23, 24, 25, 29, 30, 31; and Poets Theater, 257–68; in Seaton’s “An Example from the Literature,” 282–88; in Toscano’s “Early Morning Prompts for Evening Takes; or, Roll ’Em!,” 425
Laotse, 123
Latinina, Yulia, 9, 29, 421–22
Lautréamont, comte de, 303
Lawrence, D. H., 348
Lefebvre, Henri, 356
Lemaître, Maurice, La Plastique et hypergraphique, 215–23
Leskov, Nikolai, 133
Levertov, Denise, 126
Levis, Larry, 199
Lin, Tan, 378
Linenthal, Mark, 62
LINGUISTICS: Berkeley school (Fillmore, Kay, Lakoff), 3, 15, 24, 111–18, 141, 145, 147; and difference, 66; and generative grammar, 111, 153–54; and Jakobson’s work, 111, 158, 159–61; and Prague school, 159, 202; and private language, 202; socio-, 202, 203–4, 207; and Saussure’s work, 66, 160, 252, 303; structuralist, 179, 421
Longo, Robert, (For R.W. Fassbinder) Now Everybody, 331–33
Lyotard, Jean-François, 25
LYRIC POETRY: and Adorno’s work, 209–10; and Bakhtin’s work, 208, 210; and Creeley’s work, 345–52, 423; and Dickinson’s work, 210–12; and gender, 100, 103, 170, 171, 345–50; and Hegel’s work, 208; and identity, 420; and ideology, 210–12; and Language writing, 18, 297; and mainstream poetry, 198; and monologism, 208, 210; and private language, 202, 208–12; and society, 209–12; and Spicer’s work, 212; structuralist theory of, 174; and subjectivity, 8, 28, 202, 208–9, 212
Macherey, Pierre, 213n12
Mac Low, Jackson, 16, 17, 24, 93, 119–25, 237, 420; on Cage, 119, 123–24; on Chicago Aristotelians, 119–21, 124; on Duchamp, 119, 123, 124; on Goodman, 119, 120, 122; on tragedy, 119, 120; on Whitehead, 119, 124, 125; on Zen, 119, 122–23
Malanga, Gerard, 411n23, 412n31
Malevich, Kazimir, 331
Mamiya, Christin J., 410n11
Mandel, Ernest, 236
Mandel, Tom, 172
MANIFESTO: hybrid writing, 225–28; improvised music, 414–18; nonnarrative film, 289–93
marginality: and identity, 379, 383; and Marginality issue, 6–7, 19, 24; and negativity, 7; rhetoric of, 197
Marvell, Andrew, 400
Marx, Karl: “On the Jewish Question,” 247
MARXISM: Céline and, 245; and critique of capitalism, 232–33, 236; and Eagleton’s work, 158, 164–65, 167; and feudalism, 253; and history, 121, 391; and identity, 381; and Jameson’s work, 229–39; and language, 15, 173; modes of production in, 230–31; and reading, 37, 38; and totality, 185–96; Western, 14; and writing, 185
masculinity: in Creeley’s work, 345–50, 423; and gay identity, 367, 375–76; in O’Hara’s work, 367, 375–76; and Pop art, 410n11
MATERIAL TEXT: and Dickinson’s work, 98–109; in Lemaître’s work, 215–23; and McGann’s work, 37; and performance, 37–45
materiality, linguistic: and envisionment, 147; and incomprehension, 294; and Jameson’s critique of Perelman’s work, 229–30, 234–35; and Language writing, 13; and lyric poetry, 208; and open form, 13, 16; and Poets Theater, 257–69; and social production of meaning, 188
maya, Buddhist concept of, 277, 280n9
Mayakovsky, Vladimir, 160–61, 267
Mayer, Bernadette, Midwinter Day, 90
McCaffery, Steve, 17, 21, 237, 296
McClure, Michael, 270; Dark Brown, 272–73
McKeon, Richard, 119, 120, 121
McNaughton, Duncan, 7, 25, 299
MEANING: and excess, 167–68, 424; expanded field of, 12–14, 32; and linguistic frames, 111–18, 174; in postmodernism, 294, 298; and reading, 37, 38; and society, 185–90, 192–94, 196
MEDIA: digital, 424; and narrative, 296; politics and, 393–96; race in, 335, 338–43; postmodern, 298; standardized discourse of, 52
Melnick, David, 424
Mencius, 249
metalanguage, 161
METHOD: and Cage’s work, 415; and Dahlen’s work, 56; and language, 301–12; and Mac Low’s work, 121–24; and new media, 424, and philosophy, 46, 48–50, 52–53, 423; and society, 187, 190–94; vs. technique, 52; and writing procedures, 294, 420; and Zorn’s work, 414–18
Meyerhold, Vsevolod, 45, 257, 261, 264
Michaels, Walter Benn, 26
Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig, 326, 328–30
Miller, Ruth, 105
mind: and language, 72–77; and lyric poetry, 88–89
Mitterrand, François, 178
mode of production, Marxist theory of, 230–31; and literary practice, 188
MODERNISM, 18, 98, 121, 193, 216, 270, 328, 372; and belief, 421; and fascism, 240–56; and knowledge, 172; and politics, 173; vs. postmodernism, 7, 12–13, 232–33, 236, 299; and Russian formalism, 126–41; and Soviet cinema, 294; and women authors, 170, 171
monologism: and lyric poetry, 208–10; and scientific authority, 49. See also dialogism; heteroglossia; idioglossia
montage, cinematic, 289
Montaigne, Michel de, 46, 50, 72
monumentality, critique of, 326, 327–31, 333
Mullen, Harryette, 28, 335–44, 378; on cinema, 337–40; on commercials, 339, 342–43; on Douglass, 339, 341, 343; on music, 238–41
Murakovsky, Jan, 208
MUSIC: and Bernstein’s The Sophist, 277; chance procedures in, 123, 124, 415; and improvisation, 364–65, 414, 416–18; and race, 338–41. See also jazz
Mussolini, Benito, 240, 241, 248, 252–53, 254
NARRATIVE: and Acker’s work, 169, 177; and Benson’s work, 20; and Coolidge’s work, 20, 170; and Lydia Davis’s work, 295; and desire, 424; and experience, 155, 387, 391; and Friedman’s work, 21; and Harryman’s work, 22, 225–28; and Hejinian’s work, 155; and identity, 27, 378–83; and McCaffery’s work, 21; and media, 296; and New Narrative, 1, 4, 5, 20, 22, 23, 79, 169, 294, 313, 314; and Non/ Narrative issue, 6, 19–23; and the novel, 126–31, 135–36; and Olson’s poetics, 162–63; and Perelman’s work, 238; and postmodernism, 298; and Scalapino’s work, 20–21; and scientific knowledge, 296; and society, 23; and Sonbert’s work, 289; and structuralism, 170; and subjectivity, 20; “Symposium on Narrative,” 298; and Zorn’s work, 416–17. See also New Narrative, nonnarrative
Natambu, Kofi, 28
national security state, 393, 396
Native American culture, 381
nature: and Céline’s work, 245; and Dickinson’s work, 99; and Pound’s work, 245, 249, 253
NEGATIVITY, 2, 7, 362; in narrative, 85, 169, 313, 424; in poetry, 55, 158, 297, 425
Négritude, 372
Nekrasov, Viktor, 127
Neo-Benshi performance, 289
NEW AMERICAN POETICS, 12, 13, 14, 17, 25, 27, 29, 31, 195; and Creeley’s work, 345–52, 423; and McClure’s work, 272–73; and Olson’s work, 158–59, 162–67
New Criticism, 4, 119, 121, 126, 155
new formalism, 390
NEW NARRATIVE, 1, 4, 5, 20, 22, 23, 79–86, 169, 294, 313–19, 424; in Acker’s work, 169, 177; Acker’s “Ugly,” 177–84; and Boone’s work, 4, 20, 22, 79, 169
NEW YORK SCHOOL, 159, 257, 393; and Ashbery’s work, 397–413; and Ceravolo’s work, 141–53; and O’Hara’s work, 367–76
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 62, 240, 242–43, 247, 248, 250
Noël, Bernard, 17
nonidentity, 27, 28, 72, 87, 166
NONNARRATIVE: and Coolidge’s work, 170; and Harryman’s work, 225–28; and Friedman’s work, 294; vs. narrative, 298; and Non/Narrative issue, 6, 19–23; and politics, 296; and Rozanov’s work, 15, 126, 128, 131–39; and poetry, 282–88; and postmodernism, 229, 270, 298; and Sonbert’s work, 289
Notley, Alice, 22, 270; Margaret and Dusty, 278–80
Objectivist poetics, 14
objectivity: and experience, 391; and identity, 380–82; and philosophy, 47; and scientific knowledge, 296
Oedipus complex, 55, 58, 61, 244
O’Hara, Frank, 12, 27, 198, 254, 257, 289; “The Day Lady Died,” 376–76
Olson, Charles, 12, 15, 31, 87, 126, 158–67, 282; The Maximus Poems, 162–63; reading at Berkeley, 158, 162–67
Omi, Michael, 389
open form, 12–13, 16, 18, 22, 23, 87–90, 96n1
Open Letter (special issue, ed. McCaffery), 3, 17
OPOYAZ, 4
Oppen, George, 200
Ortiz, Travis, 30
Orwell, George, 395
Oulipo, 5
Ovid, 6
pacifism, 122
Padgett, Ron, 393
Palanker, Robin, 9
Palmer, Michael, 198, 424; Notes for Echo Lake, 111, 115–17
Parshchikov, Alexei, 320
Parsimony Principle, 141, 148–49, 152–55
Pascal, Blaise, 202
Pasternak, Boris, 45
patriarchy, 18, 49, 58, 59, 95, 186
Pearson, Ted, 29, 30, 345–52, 423
Perelman, Bob, 3, 7, 22, 23, 24, 57, 96, 154, 240–56, 282; on authoritarianism, 240, 249, 252; “China,” 229–38; on evil, 240–43, 246–48, 253; on fascism, 240–42, 245–46, 251–54; on feudalism, 245, 247, 251, 253; on genius, 249, 250, 254; Jameson’s critique of, 229–30, 232, 235–38; “My One Voice,” 96; on Nazism, 240–42, 245–46; on Nietzsche, 240, 242–43, 247, 248, 250; on Pound’s work, 240–42, 250–54
PERFORMANCE: and Alferi’s work, 307–9; and Benson’s work, 16, 37–45; and Cage’s work, 124; and chance procedures, 122–24, 414; and linguistic frames, 111–18; and Mac Low’s work, 122; and narrative, 298; Neo-Benshi, 289; and Poets Theater, 257–68; and politics, 122; and reading, 37, 173; and Zorn’s work, 414–18. See also performativity; theater
performativity: and Davies’s work, 72–78; and Harryman’s work, 225–28
Perloff, Marjorie, 23
personhood, 73, 77, 227, 279, 345, 361, 369, 415, 423; and The Person issue, 11–12, 25, 27–29, 345. See also identity; self; subjectivity
PHILOSOPHY: and knowledge, 397, 423; and language, 72–78, 282–88, 303–12; and literature, 46–54, 169, 171; and Mac Low’s work, 119–25; and method, 172; and narrative, 296; vs. poetry, 46–50, 52–54, 119–20, 122, 124, 169, 171; and Poetry and Philosophy issue, 5, 15, 16–17
Pines, Jim, 337
Plato, 53, 119, 202–3, 236, 303
pluralism, 390
Poe, Edgar Allan, 4, 77–85, 84, 85; “The Fall of the House of Usher,” 77–83
Poetics Journal: aims of, 1–2, 10; compared to L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, 3; and constructivism, 2, 12, 29; and expanded field, 12, 13, 14, 32; historical context of, 1, 2–3, 14, 31–33; and genre, 13–14; Language writing in, 1, 2, 4, 5, 6–7, 13, 19, 23, 24, 29, 30, 31; literary context of, 2–3, 14, 23, 26; and poetics as genre, 11; and turn to language, 5, 13–15, 17, 22, 23, 29–30; by issue: no. 1 (Introduction), 3, 4–5, 14–15; no. 2: Close Reading, 4, 15–16; no. 3: Poetry and Philosophy, 5, 15, 16–17; no. 4: Women and Language, 5–6, 15, 17–19; no. 5: Non/Narrative, 6, 19–23; no. 6: Marginality, 6–7, 19, 24; no. 7: Postmodern?, 8, 19, 24–25; no. 8: Elsewhere, 9–10, 25–27; no. 9: The Person, 11–12, 25, 27–29, 345; no. 10: Knowledge, 9–10, 25, 29–31
POETRY: Seaton, “An Example from the Literature,” 282–88; Toscano, “Early Morning Prompts for Evening Takes; or, Roll ’Em,” 425
“The Poetics of Everyday Life,” 422
Poets Theater, 6, 22, 257–69; and Corder’s work, 257, 258, 260–61, 267, 268n1; production stills, 262, 266
POLITICS: and aesthetics, 240, 248; and camp, 374–75; and Céline’s work, 240, 245–47; and everyday life, 367, 369, 376; and expository style, 50–52; fascist, 240–42, 245–46, 251–53, 333; and hypotaxis vs. parataxis, 390–91; and identity, 378–83, 389–91; and ideology, 173, 158–59, 162–67; and Jameson’s work, 232, 234–37; and Language writing, 185, 237–38, 295; and Mac Low’s work, 122; and media, 393–96; and O’Hara’s work, 367, 369–70, 376; and Olson’s work, 158, 162, 164, 167; and performance, 122; and Pop art, 410n11; postcolonial, 177–84; and postmodernism, 232, 234–37, 369; and Pound’s work, 240–42, 250–54; and reader-centered theory, 15–16; and social structure, 185–96; and Taoism, 122; and unity vs. pluralism, 389–90; and writing, 185, 188–96
Pollock, Jackson, 368
Ponge, Francis, 92
Pop art, 272, 368, 406–8, 410n11
Pope, Alexander, 358
pornography, 79, 80, 81, 84–85, 177, 313–19
POSTMODERNISM: and Acker’s work, 169, 177–84; and everyday life, 422; and Jameson’s work, 20, 24–25, 229–33, 236–37, 270; and Language writing, 13, 18, 24, 25; and media, 296; vs. modernism, 7, 12–13, 232–33, 236, 326; and narrative, 298; and new media, 424; and particularity, 278; and Postmodern? issue, 8, 19, 24–25; and race, 335; and personhood, 420; and reification, 229, 232–33, 236–38; and romanticism, 159, 167; and simulacra, 270, 272, 298, 335; “Symposium: Postmodern?,” 298–99; and temporality, 270; and Western Marxism, 14; and workplace, 353
poststructuralism, 14, 17, 111, 193, 225, 233, 388
Poulantzas, Nikos, 230, 232, 238
Pound, Ezra, 98, 121, 144, 237–38, 240–42, 247–55; The Cantos, 240–41, 249–55; and fascism, 240–42, 245–46, 251–54
power: and Matthew Arnold’s work, 248; and avant-garde, 386; and canonicity, 388; and identity, 380, 382; and meaning, 188–89; and Pound’s work, 253; and private language, 206–7
pragmatism, 72. See also neopragmatism Prague School, 159, 202
presence, 12, 13, 17, 149, 155, 164, 295
private language, 202–13, 215–16, 218, 222–23
process, 187
Protestant ideology, 356
protopolitical texts, 369–70, 375
Proust, Marcel, 285
Prynne, J. H., 165
PSYCHOANALYSIS: and Céline’s work, 240, 244–46; and Dahlen’s work, 18, 55–71; and Lydia Davis’s work, 295; and dreams, 57–59, 60, 62, 67, 362–64; and fascism, 245; and French feminism, 94–95, 170; incest taboo, 58, 350; and language, 92; and Olson’s work, 165–67; Piombino on, 21, 297; and politics, 421; and Pound’s work, 240; and schizophrenia, 24, 202, 229–30, 232, 234–38. See also Freud, Sigmund; Kristeva, Julia; Lacan, Jacques
public language, 202–3, 205, 207, 209, 211, 215–16, 218, 222–23
PUBLIC SPHERE, 16, 195–96, 294, 296, 375
Pushkin, Alexander, 127, 131, 136
quantum physics, 67
QUEER, 424; and O’Hara, 367–77; and Wojnarowicz, 313, 316–19
RACE: and abolitionist literature, 336, 339; and Acker’s work, 177–83; and cinema, 337–39, 340; and emotion, 335–38, 342; and identity, 389; and music, 338–41, 372–73; and O’Hara’s work, 367, 372–73; and politics of language, 51; and representation, 335–43
Radcliffe, Ann, 135
Rapaport, Herman, 30
rape, in literature, 349
Rauschenberg, Robert, 405
READING: active, 146; close, 4, 37–38, 44; and Close Reading issue, 4, 15–16; and context, 37–38; and envisionment, 146; and gender, 170; ideology of, 37; and improvisation, 88; as interminable, 65–66; and interpretation, 141, 147, 151; linguistic, 141, 147, 174; and mass production of books, 159; and material text, 37, 98; as performance, 37–45; politics of, 15–16; and reader-response theory, 37–38, 173; and structuralism, 37; and syntax, 273; and temporality, 154–55; and typos, 152; and totality, 65–66, 191
READINGS: of Acker’s work, 169, 314–16; of Ashbery’s work, 397–409; of Balzac’s work, 172; of Barthes’s work, 172; of Bataille’s work, 83–85; of Benson’s work, 44; of Bernstein’s work, 275–78; of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s work, 105–7; of Carroll’s work, 59–61; of Céline’s work, 242–45; of Ceravolo’s work, 142–53; of Coates’s work, 111–17; of Coolidge’s work, 170; of Creeley’s work, 345–51; of Lydia Davis’s work, 295; of Dickinson’s work, 41–43, 98–109, 210–12; of Duchamp’s work, 327–29; of Eigner’s work, 43; of Friedman’s work, 294–95; of Goethe’s work, 94–96; of Hagard’s work, 424; of Harryman’s work, 95; of Hejinian’s work, 88–89; of Hemingway’s work, 271–72; of The L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Book, 295–96; of Lemaître’s work, 215–23; of Language writing, 295; of Longo’s work, 331–33; of Loy’s work, 170; of lyric poetry, 297; of mainstream poetry, 199–200; of Mayer’s work, 90; of McClure’s work, 272–73; of Notley’s work, 278–80; of O’Hara’s work, 370–76; of Olson’s work, 162–67; of Palmer’s work, 115–17; of Perelman’s work, 96, 229–38; of Poe’s work, 77–83; of Poets Theater, 257–67; of Pound’s work, 240–42, 249–55; of Rozanov’s work, 128–39; of Sherman’s work, 274–75; of Silliman’s work, 173, 273; of John Smith’s work, 420; of Sonbert’s work, 291–93; of Travail de poésie (ed. Royet-Journaud), 170–71; of Whitman’s work, 38–40; of Wojnarowicz’s work, 316–19; of Zukofsky’s work, 172
realism, 21, 137, 153, 238, 264, 272, 349, 372
Reed, Ishmael, 393
referentiality: Alferi’s theory of, 309–11; Jakobson’s theory of, 158, 161; and spatiality, 92
reflexivity, poetics based on, 282
reification, 158, 229, 230, 232–33, 236–38, 388
RELIGION, and modernism, 421
Renoir, Jean, 290
Retallack, Joan, 30; on knowledge, 423
retrospection, Alferi’s theory of, 304–5, 308–9, 311
rhythm, in Alferi’s work, 305–11; in Browning’s work, 105; in Dickinson’s work, 38, 41; Jakobson on, 161; and Robinson’s work, 263, 265, 356, 360, 362, 363; of rock and roll, 343, 373; Tynjanov on, 91
Rimbaud, Arthur, 82
“Robert Creeley and the Politics of the Person,” 423–24
Robinson, Kit, 3, 15, 26, 28, 31, 154, 353–66; on alienation, 353, 364, 365, 368; Collateral, 6, 22, 257–60, 260–69; Covers, 363; on dreams, 353, 359–65; on time management, 353–57; on workplace, 353–59, 364
rock and roll, 339–40, 343, 373
romanticism, 12, 83, 137, 159, 166, 167, 195, 211, 213n16, 270–71
Roof (ed. Sherry), 19
Rosenquist, James, 406
Ross, Andrew, 8, 24, 25, 27, 367–77; on consumerism, 367, 370–73, 375; on everyday life, 367, 368–71, 374, 375; on protopolitical texts, 369–70, 375; on whites’ reception of black music, 372–73
Ross, Diana, 340
Roy, Camille, 20
Royet-Journaud, Claude (ed.), Travail de poésie, 170–71
Rozanov, Vasily, Fallen Leaves, 126, 128–39; Solitaria, 132–39
Rubinshtein, Lev, 320
Ruskin, John, 103
Russian Formalism, 3–4, 14–15, 26, 87, 126, 141, 143, 155, 163
Russian futurism, 111, 166, 203, 257
RUSSIAN POETICS, 4, 26, 294, 320–25; and conceptualism, 422; and folklore, 9, 29, 421–22; and novelistic form, 126–39
Ruysdael, Salomon van, 403, 405, 408
Samuels, Lisa, 30
Sandmann, Manfred, 145
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 20, 47–48, 51, 233
Saussure, Ferdinand de, 66, 160, 252, 303
Scalapino, Leslie, 6, 18, 25, 27, 30, 257, 270–81; on authoritarianism, 379, 381; on Busby Berkeley, 270, 273–74; on comic strips, 384, 385, 387, 388; and dialogue with Silliman, 378–92; on form, 270, 271, 276–79, 378, 380, 381, 384; on genre, 272, 274, 275, 276; on McClure’s work, 272–73; on simulacra, 270, 272–75; on subjectivity, 378, 379, 380, 383
Scarry, Elaine, 16
schema, linguistic: and Ceravolo’s poetry, 141, 144–53; and Jakobson’s “six functions” theory, 160–62
schizophrenia, 24, 202; and postmodernism, 229–30, 232, 234–38
Schjeldahl, Peter, 141–42, 152, 277, 360
Schulman, Sarah, 391
SCIENCE: and experience, 297; and expository style, 49; and indeterminacy, 67; and narrative, 296; and postmodernism, 270, 274
Seagram Building (New York), 326, 328–30
Seaton, Peter, “An Example from the Literature,” 282–88
self: Buddhism and, 122, 123; critique of, 198, 217; and Dragomoshchenko’s work, 321–24; and Hinduism, 321, 324n4; and lettrism, 217; and mainstream poetry, 198; in poetry, 28, 420. See also identity; personhood; subjectivity
semantics: and Alferi’s theory of rhythm, 306; and Ceravolo’s work, 143–52; and dreams, 359, 362–63; and Hejinian’s work, 89; and Lemaître’s work, 218, 222; and metonymy, 238; and semantic shifts, 146–55; and structuralist poetics, 174
semiotics: and narrative, 225; and Saussure’s work, 252
sentence: Alferi’s theory of, 303–11; and Ceravolo’s work, 144, 146, 149, 150; and Hejinian’s work, 89–90. See also New Sentence
SEXUALITY: and Acker’s work, 169, 177, 314–16; and Bataille’s work, 79, 83–85; and Bellamy’s work, 30, 313–19; and Creeley’s work, 349; and New Narrative, 5, 79, 313–19; and O’Hara’s work, 374; and Pound’s work, 250; and Rozanov’s work, 137–39; and Tolstoy’s work, 129; and Wojnarowicz’s work, 313, 316–18
Shakespeare, William, 65, 96, 98, 101
Shaw, Francie, 18
Shaw, Lytle, 31
Sher, Gail, 171
Sherman, Cindy, 270, 274–75, 277, 279
Sherman, Stuart, 416
Shklovsky, Viktor, 3–4, 14–15, 111, 126–40, 146; on narrative form, 126–28, 131–33
signifying chain, Lacan’s concept of, 234
Silliman, Ron, 5, 17, 25, 26, 27, 30–31, 62, 141–57, 158–59, 237, 238, 270, 303; on authoritarianism, 379, 381; on Ceravo-lo’s work, 143–52; and dialogue with Scalapino, 378–92; on frames, 141, 144, 147, 149–50; on linguistic schema, 141, 144–53; on objectivity, 381, 382; Paradise, 273; on poetic coherence, 141, 142–45, 147–48, 152, 155; on subjectivity, 382, 389; on titles, 143–44, 152; Tjanting, 5, 143, 173
Silvers, Sally, 18
simulacra, 25, 233–36, 270, 272–75, 329, 330, 335
situationism, 356
sixties culture, 12, 13, 367, 370
sleep, and time management, 355
Smith, Jack, 416
Smith, John, “Philadelphia Newspapers Read Crossways,” 420
Smith, Rod, 30
Smithson, Robert, 326
social codes, 191
social formation, Marxist theory of, 230–32, 238
society: and art history, 408; and expository style, 50–52; and lyric, 209–12; and meaning, 185–90, 192–94, 196; and modernism, 12; and narrative, 23; and Notley’s work, 278–79; and philosophy vs. poetry, 46; and postmodernism, 278; and writing as praxis, 185–96; and Zorn’s work, 417–18
Solovyov, Vladimir, 136
Sonbert, Warren, 6, 22, 289–93, 298; A Woman’s Touch, 291–93
Sophocles, 120
Sorrentino, Gilbert, 345
“soul,” black, represented in white culture, 335–43
Soviet Union, 8, 9, 26, 29, 50, 289, 294, 320, 421–22
SPACE: and architecture, 326, 328–29; and modernism, 421; and postmodernism, 31
speech: and Jakobson’s “six functions” theory, 158, 160–61; nonidentity of writing and, 72; writing as absence of, 215, 221
Stalin, Josef, 29
standardization of discourse, 50–51
Stanislavsky, Constantin, 263
state power, 248
Steele, Timothy, 390
Stein, Gertrude, 390; and architecture, 328; and authorship, 28; and composition, 277; and continuous present, 270; and feminism, 99; and identity, 361; and Language writing, 13, 17; Loy influenced by, 170; and metonymy, 238; and poetics, 11, 12; and postmodernism, 232; reception of, 98, 121; and reflexivity, 282; on repetition, 91
Steiner, George, 65
Stendhal, 290
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 102, 336, 337
structuralism, 14, 37, 111, 174, 188, 202
style: critique of expository, 49–51; as cultural abstraction, 271; and Jakobson’s theory of poetics, 160; and mind-language relation, 74; and philosophy vs. poetry, 47–49, 52–54
SUBJECTIVITY: and Creeley’s work, 29, 345, 347–51; critique of poetic, 8–9; and Dickinson’s work, 43, 212; and Drago-moshchenko’s work, 320–25; and gender, 63; Guattari’s theory of, 421; and hypersubjectivity, 28, 31; and identity, 379–80, 382–83; as ineradicable in poetry, 420; and Language writing, 27; and lyric poetry, 8, 28, 202, 208–9, 212; masculine, 34, 345–52; and narrative, 20; and Notley’s work, 278; and postmodernism, 326–34; whites’ representation of black identity, 335–43; and Whitman’s work, 43. See also identity; personhood; self
surfers, language and, 202, 203–5
surrealism, 20, 26, 177, 203, 215, 216
Suzuki, D. T., 123
Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 276, 277
symbolic order, Lacan’s theory of, 60–61, 63, 95, 234–35
“Symposium on Narrative,” 298
“Symposium: Postmodern?,” 298–99
syntax: and Alferi’s theory of rhythm, 306–7, 310; and Bernstein’s work, 154; and dreams, 359, 362–63; and Hejinian’s work, 89, 154; and Lemaître’s work, 218, 222; and Palmer’s work, 115–16; and Perelman’s work, 154; reversed, 154
Tarkovsky, Andrei, 323
Tarn, Nathaniel, 27
theater, 257, 415–16; and Coates’s work, 111, 112–15; and Kit Robinson’s Collateral, 6, 22, 257–69
This (ed. Grenier and Watten), 2, 19
This Press (ed. Watten), 2
Thomas, Lorenzo, 30; and media, 393–95; and politics, 393, 395–96; “The Marks Are Waiting,” 393–96
Thoreau, Henry David, 46, 48–49, 53
TIME, 62–63, 90, 154–55, 270, 271, 277, 348, 353–57, 422; management of, 353–57
Tinker, Allan, 57
titles, as components of poetry, 143–44, 152, 403, 405, 406
Tiutchev, Fyodor, 320
Todd, Mabel Loomis, 211
Tolstoy, Leo, 127, 128, 129, 130, 146
Torres, Edwin, 257
Toscano, Rodrigo, 257, 378; “Early Morning Prompts for Evening Takes; or, Roll ’Em!,” 425
totality: poetic, 152, 155; social, 185, 186–92, 195–96, 231
Tottel’s (ed. Silliman), 19
Tremblay-McGaw, Robin, 5
Tu, Hung Q., 30
Tubb, Ernest, 28
Tudor, David, 124
Turner, Lana, 374
Turner, Tina, 342
turn to language, 5, 13–15, 17, 22, 23, 29–30, 72, 79, 170, 225, 320
Tuumba Press (ed. Hejinian), 2, 361
Twain, Mark, 136
twins, private language of, 202, 206–7
typos, in Ceravolo’s poem, 152
Tzara, Tristan, 420
U.K. POETICS, 171
Umbra Workshop, 393
uncanny, the, 59
unconscious, 59, 60, 62, 67, 68, 95, 229, 234
unity, poetic, 142, 144, 145, 147, 148, 152, 155
utilitarianism, 249
Van Gogh, Vincent, 232–33, 415
Verlaine, Paul, 371
VISUAL ART: and Ashbery’s work, 397–413; Dada, 215, 216–24; in Friedman’s Space Stations, 294; and Lemaître’s work, 215–24; and Longo’s work, 331–33; Pop art, 397–413; and postmodernism, 326–34; and Sherman’s work, 274–75
VISUALITY: and cinema, 289–93; and experience, 297; and knowledge, 172; and material text, 38
Von Hallberg, Robert, 371
voyeurism, 223
Waldman, Anne, 198
Waldrop, Rosmarie, 6
Ward, Diane, 22
Warhol, Andy, 24, 30, 232–33, 368, 397, 398–400, 402–3, 405–9, 410n11, 411n23; and Ashbery, 397–409, 411; Popeye, 399, 403, 405; untitled film still, 402
Watson, Craig, 48
Watten, Barrett, 2, 3, 5, 7, 10, 52, 143, 158–68, 423; on Berkeley Poetry Conference, 15, 158, 163; as co-editor of This, 2; on Eagleton’s work, 15, 158, 164–67; on Jakobsons’s work, 158, 160–61, 166; on literary autonomy, 159–62, 165–66; on Olson’s work, 158, 162–67
Weininger, Otto, 170
Weiss, Jason, 7
Wesselmann, Tom, 406
Whitehead, Alfred North, 5, 119, 124, 125
Whitman, Walt: and authorship, 40, 43; and individualism, 99, 211; Leaves of Grass, 4, 38–40; and reading, 16
Whittier, John Greenleaf, 336
Whorf, Benjamin Lee, 94
Wilden, Anthony, 350
Williams, Raymond, 144–45, 231
Williams, William Carlos, 12, 27, 166, 348, 353
Wimsatt, W.K., Jr., 208
Winant, Howard, 389
Winet, Jon, 9
Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 5, 14, 17, 46, 48, 53, 65, 67, 148, 202, 203, 258, 363
Wolf, Reva, 30, 397–413; and Ashbery, 397–413; and limits of knowledge, 397, 406–7, 409; and Pop Art, 406–8; and Warhol, 397, 398–400, 402–3, 405–9, 410n11, 411n23
Wolff, Christian, 124
Wojnarowicz, David: Close to the Knives, 316–19
women: in Creeley’s work, 348–50; experimental writing of, 98–99; and Language writing, 18; and novel writing, 384; and race, 335; and representation, 55, 63–65; and symbolic order, 95; and Women and Language issue, 5–6, 15, 17–19
Woolf, Virginia, 6, 16, 345, 384
Wordsworth, William, 12, 54, 358
workplace: and language, 357–59, 364; and time management, 353–57
WRITING: and critique of narrative, 228; and dreams, 359–60, 362–65; and family relations, 386; history of, 215, 218, 220; and Lemaître’s work, 215–16, 218–23; and method, 46, 48–50, 52–53; and mind, 72–78; and new media, 424; nonidentity of speech and, 72, 215, 221; as praxis, 185–96; and time management, 353–54
Yeats, William Butler, 121
Žižek, Slavoj, 30
Zorn, John, 9, 414–19; on improvisation, 414–18
Zukofsky, Louis, 13, 17, 30, 162, 282; Bottom: On Shakespeare, 172
Zweig, Ellen, 18