The Objectivist Nexus: Essays in Cultural Poetics.
""Objectivist"" writers, conjoined through a variety of personal, ideological, and literary-historical links, have, from the late 1920s to the present, attracted emulation and suspicion. Representing a nonsymbolist, postimagist poetics and characterized by a historical, realist,...
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments; Introduction / Rachel Blau DuPlessis and Peter Quatermain ; I. ""We Said / Objectivist"": Optics, Objectification, Sincerity, Seriality; 1. The Objectivist Tradition / Charles Altieri ; 2. A Poetics of Marginality and Resistance: The Objectivist Poets in Context / Burton Hatlen ; 3. Be Aware of ""the Medusa's Glance"": The Objectivist Lens and Carl Rakosi's Poetics of Strabismal Seeing / Ming-Qian Ma ; 4. George Oppen's Serial Poems / Alan Golding ; II. Politics, Class, and Ideology; 5. Communists and Objectivists / Eric Homberger.
- 6. Irrelevant Objects: Basil Bunting's Poetry of the 1930s / John Seed 7. Objectivists in the Thirties: Utopocalyptic Moments / Michael Heller ; 8. Lorine Niedecker's ""Folk Base"" and Her Challenge to the American Avant-Garde / Peter Middleton ; III. Ethics and Religious Culture; 9. Tradition and Modernity, Judaism and Objectivism: The Poetry of Charles Reznikoff / Norman Finkelstein ; 10. Reznikoff's Nearness / Charles Bernstein ; 11. Of Being Ethical: Reflections on George Oppen / Peter Nicholls ; IV. Affiliations; 12. Reading Reznikoff: Zukofsky, Oppen, and Niedecker / Robert Franciosi.
- 13. Zukofsky's List / Andrew Crozier 14. ""And All Now Is War"": George Oppen, Charles Olson, and the Problem of Literary Generations / Stephen Fredman ; 15. Land's End / Yves di Manno ; 16. The Transformations of Objectivism: An Afterword / Charles Altieri ; Notes; Works Cited; Contributors; Index.
