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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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Main Authors: Epstein, Andrew, 1969- (Author)
Published: Oxford University Press,
Publisher Address: New York, NY :
Publication Dates: [2016]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Subjects:
American poetry > 20th century > History and criticism.
American poetry > 21st century > History and criticism.
Civilization in literature.
Banality (Philosophy) in literature.
Realism in literature.
Attention > Social aspects > United States.
Realism > Social aspects > United States.
Summary: "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.

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