ISBN 0810115611

Citation:

Perloff, Marjorie. Poetry On & Off the Page: Essays for Emergent Occasions. University of Alabama Press, 2004.

Contents:

Acknowledgments
Introduction 1   

1. Postmodernism / Fin de Siecle: Defining “Difference” in Late Twentieth-Century Poetics    3
2. Tolerance and Taboo: Modernist Primitivisms and Postmodernist Pieties    34 [PDF]
3. “Barbed-Wire Entanglements”: The “New American Poetry,” 1930-32    51
4. “A Step Away from Them”: Poetry 1956    83
5. Lucent and Inescapable Rhythms: Metrical “Choice” and Historical Formation    116
6. After Free Verse: The New Nonlinear Poetries    141 [PDF]
7. What We Don’t Talk about When We Talk about Poetry: Some Aporias of Literary Journalism    168
8. English as a “Second” Language: Mina Loy’s “Anglo-Mongrels and the Rose”    193
9. Poetry in Time of War: The Duncan-Levertov Controversy    208
10. How Russian Is It: Lyn Hejinian’s Oxota    222
11. What Really Happened: Roland Barthes’s Winter Garden/Christian Boltanski’s Archives of the Dead    243
12. “Inner Tension / In Attention”: Steve McCaffery’s Book Art    264
13. The Music of Verbal Space: John Cage’s “What You Say …”    290
14. The Morphology of the Amorphous: Bill Viola’s Videoscapes    309

Notes 323
Illustration Sources 357
Poetry Sources 363
Index 365

Reviews:

• Perloff in the Nineties by David Zauhar, EBR 9, Spring 1999.
• “Breakthrough Books,” by Al Filreis, Lingua Franca (2000).
• Poetry On and Off the Page, Michael Davidson, Boston Review, April/May 1999.

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