Attention equals life : the pursuit of the everyday in contemporary poetry and culture /
"Attention Equals Life examines why a quest to pay attention to daily life has increasingly become a central feature of both contemporary American poetry and the wider culture of which it is a part" --
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Oxford University Press,
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Publisher Address: | New York, NY : |
Publication Dates: | [2016] |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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"Attention Equals Life examines why a quest to pay attention to daily life has increasingly become a central feature of both contemporary American poetry and the wider culture of which it is a part" -- |
Carrier Form: | xi, 364 pages ; 25 cm |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [323]-346) and index. |
ISBN: |
9780199972128 0199972125 |
Index Number: | PS310 |
CLC: | I712.072 |
Call Number: | I712.072/E645 |
Contents: | Introduction: the poetics of everyday life since 1945 -- The crisis of attention, everyday life theory, and contemporary poetry -- "Each day so different, yet still alike": James Schuyler and the elusive everyday -- "Tthe tiny invites attention": A. R. Ammons's quotidian muse -- Writing the maternal everyday: Bernadette Mayer and her "daughters" (Hoa Nguyen, Susan Holbrook, Laynie Browne) -- "There is no content here, only dailiness": poetry as critique of everyday life in Ron Silliman's Ketjak -- Everyday life projects in contemporary poetry and culture (Kenneth Goldsmith, Claudia Rankine, Brenda Coultas, Harryette Mullen) -- Conclusion: Claudia Rankine's citizen and beyond. |