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- Book Title
- Reading the Modernist Long Poem
- Title
- Reading the Modernist Long Poem
- Subtitle
- John Cage, Charles Olson and the Indeterminacy of Longform Poetic
- ISBN-10
- 1501371894
- EAN
- 9781501371899
- ISBN
- 9781501371899
- Genre
- Literary Criticism
- Release Date
- 07/28/2022
- Release Year
- 2022
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Subject Area
- Literary Criticism
- Publication Name
- Reading the Modernist Long Poem : John Cage, Charles Olson and the Indeterminacy of Longform Poetics
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Subject
- Comparative Literature, Modern / 20th Century, Poetry
- Publication Year
- 2022
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.5 in
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Item Weight
- 11.5 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 240 Pages
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How do readers approach the enigmatic and unnavigable modernist long poem? Taking as the form's exemplars the highly influential but critically contentious poetries of John Cage and Charles Olson, this book considers indeterminacy - the fundamental feature of the long poem - by way of its analogues in musicology, mycology, cybernetics and philosophy. It addresses features of these works that figure broadly in the long poem tradition, such as listing, typography, archives, mediation and mereology, while articulating how both poets broke with the longform poetic traditions of the early 1900s. Brendan C. Gillott argues for Cage's and Olson's centrality to these traditions - in developing, critiquing and innovating on the longform poetics of the past, their work revolutionized the longform poetry of the 20th and 21st centuries.
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Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN-10
1501371894
ISBN-13
9781501371899
eBay Product ID (ePID)
18050402036
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Reading the Modernist Long Poem : John Cage, Charles Olson and the Indeterminacy of Longform Poetics
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Comparative Literature, Modern / 20th Century, Poetry
Publication Year
2022
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9 in
Item Height
0.5 in
Item Width
6 in
Item Weight
11.5 Oz
Additional Product Features
LCCN
2020-022541
Lc Classification Number
Ps310.M57g55 2021
Reviews
" Reading the Modernist Long Poem provides a valuable consideration of longform and indeterminate poetry of the postwar period. Gillott's focus on reading protocols for John Cage and Charles Olson opens new territory for our understanding of these writers and their contemporaries." -- Peter Jaeger, Professor of Poetics, University of Roehampton, UK, and author of Midamble (2018) "An exceptionally lucid and theoretically well informed study of the long poem, which Gillott puts in conversation with Marjorie Perloff's 'Other Tradition', with Pound, Stein and Beckett. Gillott's special interest is in indeterminacy as it operates in, and is generated by, long forms, something that he studies with great clarity and richness in the contexts of John Cage and Charles Olson, whose works are discussed philosophically, critically, culturally and historically. This is a book of major importance for anyone interested in contemporary poetry and the 'longform'." -- Herman Rapaport, Reynolds Professor of English, Wake Forest University, USA, and author of The Literary Theory Toolkit (2011) "In this brilliant study, Brendan Gillott comprehensively recalibrates our ways of reading two of the most challenging and generative long poems of the past century: The Maximus Poems of Charles Olson and John Cage's I-VI . By following out all the ramifications of indeterminacy for the making and receiving of these works, Gillott demonstrates the artistic, philosophical and basic human demands and opportunities these books place before their writers and readers. Not just a theoretical watchword, "indeterminacy" is here made into a subtle tool for reckoning the vital stakes in the modern long poem." -- Stephen Fredman, Emeritus Professor of English, University of Notre Dame, and author of American Poetry as Transactional Art (2020) "Brendan Gillott wonderfully adumbrates the centrality of indeterminacy in the works of John Cage and - more surprisingly - Charles Olson. By showing how structures and strategies of indeterminacy are not merely fundamental to Olson and Cage's compositional practices, but are necessary elements of readers' approaches to their work, Gillott sets out a new and provocative framework for reading these writers' important long poems." -- Mark Scroggins, Professor of English (Emeritus), Florida Atlantic University, USA, and author of Intricate Thicket: Reading Late Modernist Poetries (2015), Brendan Gillott wonderfully adumbrates the centrality of indeterminacy in the works of John Cage and - more surprisingly - Charles Olson. By showing how structures and strategies of indeterminacy are not merely fundamental to Olson and Cage's compositional practices, but are necessary elements of readers' approaches to their work, Gillott sets out a new and provocative framework for reading these writers' important long poems., In this brilliant study, Brendan Gillott comprehensively recalibrates our ways of reading two of the most challenging and generative long poems of the past century: The Maximus Poems of Charles Olson and John Cage's I-VI . By following out all the ramifications of indeterminacy for the making and receiving of these works, Gillott demonstrates the artistic, philosophical and basic human demands and opportunities these books place before their writers and readers. Not just a theoretical watchword, "indeterminacy" is here made into a subtle tool for reckoning the vital stakes in the modern long poem., Reading the Modernist Long Poem provides a valuable consideration of longform and indeterminate poetry of the postwar period. Gillott's focus on reading protocols for John Cage and Charles Olson opens new territory for our understanding of these writers and their contemporaries., An exceptionally lucid and theoretically well informed study of the long poem, which Gillott puts in conversation with Marjorie Perloff's 'Other Tradition', with Pound, Stein and Beckett. Gillott's special interest is in indeterminacy as it operates in, and is generated by, long forms, something that he studies with great clarity and richness in the contexts of John Cage and Charles Olson, whose works are discussed philosophically, critically, culturally and historically. This is a book of major importance for anyone interested in contemporary poetry and the 'longform'.
Table of Content
Acknowledgements Introduction: Indeterminacy 1. Olson's 'Projective Verse' 2. Poetics of speed: Mediation in Maximus 3. Mycopoetics: Cage's Mushroom Book 4. Olson, lists and archives 5. Ideas in Cage's I-VI 6. Models and mereology 7. Typos Conclusion: Nonunderstanding Bibliography Discography Index
Target Audience
College Audience
Dewey Decimal
811/.909112
Dewey Edition
23
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