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Entry 05: Criticizing the Poet/Critic

In today’s mail came the current Critical Inquiry (36, no. 2; Winter 2010), which I earlier noticed would contain an essay on George Oppen (John Wilkinson, “The Glass Enclosure: Transparency and...

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Image 05: Total Syntax Détournement

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Event 07: John Ashbery in Paris

“Ashbery’s Historicism: Regions of Modernity           in The Double Dream of Spring“ Workshop Session III, 14:30–17:00 Friday, 12 March 2010 John Ashbery in Paris: International Conference 11–13 March...

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Entry 12: Relational Poetics

post_moot 2KX / poetry + performance: a convocation Miami University (Oxford, Ohio), 22–25 April 2010 Meetings, encounters, events, various types of collaboration between people, games, festivals, and...

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Entry 13: Jackson Mac Low as Reading Machine

“Jackson Mac Low as Reading Machine: Stanzas for Iris Lezak, Sampling, and Print Culture,” presented at High and Low, European Network for Avant-Garde and Modernist Studies, Adam Mickiewicz University,...

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Event 21: Cary Nelson Talks @ WSU

“Absolute Contingency: The Political Work of WWI Popular Poetry” Thursday, April 14, 3:00 PM The Welcome Center Auditorium Woodward & Warren Avenues, WSU “Honor & Solidarity: Can the Legacy of...

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Entry 15: Poetics of Failure

A resonant passage from Lyn Hejinian’s The Book of a Thousand Eyes, which should have wide circulation (and links) for pedagogical and moral purposes. I am a failed fire chief I am a failed thief...

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Document 19: Books @MLA/Gloucester

[for Sarah Ruddy] In lieu of a list of resolutions for the New Year, a bibliography of books acquired at the recent MLA in Boston and on a side trip to Gloucester may point toward some of its promises....

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Document 25: A Guide to Poetics Journal

An advance copy of A Guide to Poetics Journal: Writing in the Expanded Field, 1982-98 has just arrived. Orders may be placed now but will be fulfilled later (check here for updates on delivery). The...

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Document 27: A Guide to Poetics Journal

A Guide to Poetics Journal: Writing in the Expanded Field, 1982–1998 Ed. Lyn Hejinian and Barrett Watten Wesleyan University Press, 2013 A Guide to Poetics Journal, the print component of a hybrid...

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Document 36: Language Writing

New in 2015: “Language Writing” an essay by Barrett Watten The Cambridge Companion to Modern American Poetry ed. Walter Kalaidjian Table of contents: 1. The emergence of ‘the new poetry’ John Timberman...

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Entry 21: Notes on Silliman/Place

A week ago, I returned from Germany to find the online poetry community in an uproar over Ron Silliman’s “Je suis Vanessa Place.” There, Silliman triangulates the Charlie Hebdo award controversy with...

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Document 38: Occupy Poetics

Barrett Watten, “Occupy Poetics: A Work in Progress” ASAP, 28 September 2015 This paper follows on a contribution to the EAM meeting in Helsinki that tracked two opposing accounts of language-centered...

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Document 39: Transvaluations II

Barrett Watten, “The Poet/Critic: Transvaluations of Value after Modernism” MSA, 20 November 2015 I continue my discussion of the poetics of value in modernism (Wallace Stevens and William Carlos...

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Event 62: Questions of Poetics

Announcing publication of Questions of Poetics: Language Writing and Consequences     “Questions of Poetics is full-on Watten, a book with sharp edges, relentless intelligence, and an unwavering...

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Entry 24: 17 Reasons Why!

17 Reasons Why!  “17 Reasons Why!” is a key site in the cognitive map of San Francisco during the period in which Language writing emerged, the 1970s. The cryptic formula, for which no adequate...

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Entry 25: 17 Reasons Why!

  Reason 1: Language writing should not be understood in merely formalist terms. Reason 2: It is a consequence of the cultural logic of the period(s) in which it was written and has its influence....

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Document 41: Iowa Discount Flyer

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Document 42: I Read (Questions of Poetics)

Free Speech Movement Ansel Adams Allen Ginsberg Black Panther Party Robert Duncan W.S. Merwin Denise Levertov Robert Creeley Robert Grenier 1–10: “Non-Events” Roberto Bolaño neoliberalism Language...

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Event 71: I Met (Louisville 2017)

The Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900 23–25 February 2017 University of Louisville Alan Golding George Hart Jennifer Bartlett Aldon Lynn Nielsen Diana Rosenberger Kelly Roy...

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