ISBN 0817314210, 9780817314217
Citation:
Perloff, Marjorie. Differentials: Poetry, Poetics, Pedagogy. University of Alabama Press, 2004.
Contents:
Introduction: Differential Reading
1. Crisis in the humanities?: reconfiguring literary study for the twenty-first century 1
2. Cunning passages and contrived corridors: rereading Eliot’s “Gerontion” 20
3. The search for “prime words”: Pound, Duchamp, and the nominalist ethos 39
4. “But isn’t the same at least the same?”: Wittgenstein on translation 60
5. “Logocinema of the frontiersman”: Eugene Jolas’s multilingual poetics and its legacies 82
6. “The silence that is not silence”: acoustic art in Samuel Beckett’s radio plays 102
7. Language poetry and the lyric subject: Ron Silliman’s Albany, Susan Howe’s Buffalo 129
8. After language poetry: innovation and its theoretical discontents 155
9. The invention of “concrete prose”: Haroldo de Campos’s Galaxias and after 175
10. Songs of the earth Ronald Johnson’s verbivocovisuals 194
11. The Oulipo factor : the procedural poetics of Christian Bok and Caroline Bergvall 205
12. Filling the space with trace: Tom Raworth’s “Letters from Yaddo” 227
13. Teaching the “new” poetries: the case of Rae Armantrout 243
14. Writing poetry/writing about poetry: some problems of affiliation 258
Reviews:
- Barbour, Douglas. “Perloff on Pedagogical Process: Reading as Learning.” EBR. <http://www.electronicbookreview.com/thread/electropoetics/notable>
- Becker, C.A. “Marjorie Perloff. Differentials: Poetry, Poetics, Pedagogy.[Review]” RMMLA 59.2. <http://rmmla.wsu.edu/ereview/59.2/reviews/becker.asp>
- Corey, Joshua. “Poetry Microreviews.” Boston Review 30.3. <http://bostonreview.net/BR30.3/micros.html>
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