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1 online resource (202 p.) |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Divya Victor on Walt Whitman, Canto 11 from "Song of Myself" (1855) -- 2 Rae Armantrout on Emily Dickinson, "The Brain -- is Wider than the Sky" (c. 1862) -- 3 Ron Silliman on Gertrude Stein, "A Carafe, that is a Blind Glass" (1914) -- 4 Bob Perelman on Robert Frost, "Mending Wall" (1914) -- 5 Rachel Blau DuPlessis on H.D., "Sea Rose" (1916) -- 6 Yosuke Tanaka on Ezra Pound, "The Encounter" (1916) -- 7 Christian Bök on Marcel Duchamp and Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, "Fountain" (1917) -- 8 Tonya Foster on Claude McKay, "If We Must Die" (1919) -- 9 Lytle Shaw on Wallace Stevens, "The Snow Man" (1921) -- 10 Julia Bloch on William Carlos Williams, "The rose is obsolete" (1923) -- 11 Jennifer Scappettone on Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, "XRAY" (1924) -- 12 Craig Dworkin on Bob Brown, from GEMS (1931) -- 13 Rodrigo Toscano on Genevieve Taggard, "Interior" (1935) -- 14 Mark Nowak on Ruth Lechlitner, "Lines for an Abortionist's Office" (1936) Close here -- 15 Robert Fitterman on Mina Loy, "The Song of the Nightingale Is Like the Scent of Syringa" (c. 1944) -- 16 Davy Knittle on Allen Ginsberg, "A Supermarket in California" (1955) -- 17 Jake Marmer on Bob Kaufman, from "Jail Poems" (1960) -- 18 Danny Snelson on Jackson Mac Low, "Call me Ishmael" (1960) -- 19 Fred Wah on Robert Creeley, "I Know a Man" (1962) -- 20 Marjorie Perloff on Frank O'Hara, "Poem (Khrushchev is coming on the right day!)" (1964) -- 21 Aldon Lynn Nielsen on Langston Hughes, "Dinner Guest: Me" (1965) -- 22 Sina Queyras on Sylvia Plath, "Lady Lazarus" (1965) -- 23 Herman Beavers on Gwendolyn Brooks, "Boy Breaking Glass" (1967) -- 24 Gabriel Ojeda-Sagué on Barbara Guest, "20" (1968) -- 25 Tyrone Williams on Amiri Baraka, "Incident" (1969) -- 26 Sarah Dowling on Lorine Niedecker, "Foreclosure" (1970) -- 27 Michael Davidson on Larry Eigner, "birds the" (1970) -- 28 Christie Williamson on Tom Leonard, "Jist Ti Let Yi No" (c. 1974) -- 29 Laynie Browne on Bernadette Mayer, "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" (1976) -- 30 Charles Bernstein on Lyn Hejinian, from My Life (1980) -- 31 Al Filreis on Cid Corman, "It isnt for want" (1982) -- 32 Adam Fitzgerald on John Ashbery, "Just Walking Around" (1984) -- 33 Stephen Collis on Susan Howe, from My Emily Dickinson (1985) -- 34 Nick Montfort on Rosmarie Waldrop, "A Shorter American Memory of the Declaration of Independence" (1988) -- 35 Eileen Myles on James Schuyler, "Six Something" (1990) -- 36 Simone White on Erica Hunt, "the voice of no" (1996) -- 37 Mónica de la Torre on Erica Baum, from Card Catalogues (1997) -- 38 erica kaufman on Joan Retallack, "Not a Cage" (1998) -- 39 Lyn Hejinian on Lydia Davis, "A Mown Lawn" (2001) -- 40 Elizabeth Willis on Rae Armantrout, "The Way" (2001) -- 41 Sharon Mesmer on Michael Magee, from "Pledge" (2001) -- 42 Rachel Zolf on Eileen Myles, "Snakes" (2001) -- 43 Edwin Torres on Anne Waldman, "Rogue State" (2002) -- 44 Amber Rose Johnson on Harryette Mullen, "Elliptical" (2002 -- 45 Jena Osman on Caroline Bergvall, "VIA" (2003) -- 46 Imaad Majeed on Charles Bernstein, "In a Restless World Like This Is" (2004) -- 47 Bernadette Mayer on Laynie Browne, "Sonnet 123" (2007) -- 48 Douglas Kearney on Tracie Morris, "Africa(n)" (2008) -- 49 Tracie Morris on Jayne Cortez, "She Got He Got" (2010) -- 50 Erica Hunt on Evie Shockley, "a one-act play" (2017) -- List of Contributors -- Index |
| Summary |
In The Difference Is Spreading, Al Filreis, creator and lead teacher of the open online course on modern and contemporary poetry known as ModPo, and Anna Strong Safford invite fifty poets to select and comment upon a poem by another writer, demonstrating how poetry happens when a reader and a poet come in contact with one another |
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Cultural Studies |
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Literature |
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Description based upon print version of record |
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American poetry -- History and criticism
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American poetry -- Appreciation
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LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry
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American poetry
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American poetry -- Appreciation
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Safford, Anna Strong
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| ISBN |
081229971X |
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9780812299717 |
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