TY - BOOK AU - Davidson,Michael ED - Project Muse. TI - On the outskirts of form: practicing cultural poetics SN - 9780819571373 AV - PN1055 .D38 2011 U1 - 808.1 23 PY - 2011/// CY - Middletown, Conn. PB - Wesleyan University Press KW - Literature, Modern KW - 21st century KW - History and criticism KW - 20th century KW - Poetry KW - Theory, etc KW - Poetics KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-313) and index; A public language. On the outskirts of form : cosmopoetics in the shadow of NAFTA -- The dream of a public language : modernity, textuality, and the citizen subject -- Objectivist frames. Life by water : Lorine Niedecker and critical regionalism -- "Closed in glass" : Oppen's class spectacles -- Approaching the new American poetry. Archaeologist of morning : Charles Olson, Edward Dorn and historical method -- "The repeated insistence" : Creeley's rage -- A Cold War correspondence : gender trouble in the letters of Robert Duncan and Denise Levertov -- Looking through lithium : James Schuyler as Jim the Jerk -- Ekphrasis and the New York School -- The pleasures of merely circulating : John Ashbery and the jargon of inauthenticity -- "Struck against parenthesis" : Shelley and postmodern romanticisms -- "Skewed by design" : from act to speech act in language writing -- Vertigo : thinking toward action in the poetry of George Oppen -- Afterword : impossible poetries UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780819571373/ ER -