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Phenomenology and the Late Twentieth-Century American Long Poem

Part of the Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-05002-3

ISBN: 978-3-030-05001-6

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Jan 5, 2019

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Chapter 1Coming to Terms with the American Long Poem: Introduction

Carbery, Matthew

Pages: 1 –35

[In this introduction, Carbery illuminates the role phenomenological philosophy has played in the composition of long poems in America. The diverse group of poets explored in the book—George Oppen, Robin Blaser, Susan Howe, Lyn Hejinian, Leslie Scalapino, Nathaniel Mackey and Rachel Blau...
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Chapter 2Finding a Word for Ourselves: George Oppen’s Of Being Numerous

Carbery, Matthew

Pages: 37 –63

[In this chapter, Carbery presents a phenomenological reading of George Oppen’s long poem ‘Of Being Numerous’ (1968). He argues that Oppen’s use of serial form in this work and others is informed by the notion that seriality can act as an analogue for intersubjectivity. In this regard, Oppen is...
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Chapter 3A Huge Companionship: Robin Blaser’s ‘Image-Nation’

Carbery, Matthew

Pages: 65 –93

[In this chapter, Carbery offers an account of the composition of Robin Blaser’s extended poetic project Image-Nations (1975–2007). Blaser’s poetics is informed not only by a serious engagement with the intersubjective phenomenology of Maurice Merleau-Ponty but also his reliance on the poetics’...
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Chapter 4A Grand Essay on Perception: Lyn Hejinian and Leslie Scalapino’s Sight

Carbery, Matthew

Pages: 95 –124

[This chapter offers the first major reading of Sight (1999), a collaborative long poem written by Lyn Hejinian and Leslie Scalapino in the form of an exchange of letters, postcards and emails. Its title, Sight, indicates the overwhelming thematic concern of the work: vision and its role in...
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Chapter 5A Massive System of Urgency: Susan Howe’s Pierce-Arrow

Carbery, Matthew

Pages: 125 –155

[In this chapter, Carbery presents a substantial reading of the relationship between Husserlian phenomenology and Susan Howe’s historical poetics, with a particular emphasis on her long poem Pierce-Arrow (1997). Carbery uncovers the relationship Howe proposes in this poem between American...
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Chapter 6Adumbration Bound Our Book: Nathaniel Mackey’s ‘Song of the Andoumboulou’

Carbery, Matthew

Pages: 157 –191

[This chapter offers a detailed reading of Nathaniel Mackey’s long poem ‘Song of the Andoumboulou’, which began in 1985 and is still being composed in 2019. Carbery’s argument does not anticipate the ‘final shape’ of Mackey’s long poem, but rather seeks to establish the guiding influences and...
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Chapter 7The Book Withdraws into Itself: Rachel Blau DuPlessis’ Drafts

Carbery, Matthew

Pages: 193 –223

[This chapter conducts a reading of the overall form and structure of Rachel Blau DuPlessis’ long poem project Drafts. First started in 1986, it is a work of dazzling formal variety which displays not only direct engagement with phenomenological texts but also with previous American long poems,...
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Chapter 8An Ever-Renewed Experience of Its Own Beginning: Conclusion

Carbery, Matthew

Pages: 225 –230

[In this final concluding chapter, Carbery brings together the interdependent inquiries carried out in Phenomenology and the Late Twentieth Century American Long Poem with a view to consolidating the intertwined narratives of poetic extension and phenomenological inquiry explored throughout the...

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