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Male Subjectivity and Poetic Form in “New American” Poetry

Part of the Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9780230106802

ISBN: 978-1-349-38034-3

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US - Springer Journals

Dec 4, 2015

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Chapter 1Introduction

Mossin, Andrew

Pages: 1 –23

[In 1991, while a graduate student in the MA program in creative writing at Temple University in Philadelphia, I started writing poems on eleven-by- fourteen broad sheets of heavy manila paper. The poems, modeled somewhat loosely on the large format pages of Charles Olson’s Maximus Poems (1983)...
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Chapter 2“In Thicket”: Charles Olson, Poetic Career, and the Crisis of Cold War Masculinity

Mossin, Andrew

Pages: 25 –64

[Until fairly recently, literary scholarship has tended to view poetic career as developing largely through the strength, commitment, talents, and so on of the poet. It’s a narrative that’s been made familiar to most of us through biographies of poets, where the arc from visionary ephebe to...
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Chapter 3“Homosexual Advertising”: Gay Subjectivity, Modernist Form, and Robert Duncan’s The Venice Poem

Mossin, Andrew

Pages: 65 –100

[Stories told after the fact are often apocryphal reminders of another kind of self-fashioning. When Greenblatt reminds us of the social nature of language as construction—and our identities within that framework as likewise constructs of “public signification”—he takes us to the heart of an...
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Chapter 4In the Shadow of Nerval: Robert Duncan, Robin Blaser, and the Poetics of (Mis)Translation

Mossin, Andrew

Pages: 101 –128

[Translation is, as Spicer recognized, risky business. Involving issues of poetic tradition, language (“words around the immediate”), and the insistent subjectivity of the poet him/herself engaged in the act of translating, translation presents a particularly fraught region in contemporary poetic...
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Chapter 5Recovering the Public World: Robin Blaser, Hannah Arendt, and the Discourses of Self and Other in Image-Nations 1–12

Mossin, Andrew

Pages: 129 –157

[When Robin Blaser and Robert Duncan had their falling out in late 1965 over ostensibly poetic matters related to their translations of Gérard de Nerval’s sonnet sequence Les Chimères, what became most immediately apparent perhaps were the fundamentally different ways in which they understood the...
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Chapter 6“Collapsed Aura”: Nathaniel Mackey, Robert Duncan, and the Poetics of Discrepant Subjectivity in “Song of the Andoumboulou”

Mossin, Andrew

Pages: 159 –190

[Where serial form functions for Blaser in his “Image-Nations” as meditative praxis for a reconsideration of the connections between public and poetic discourses, in the work of Nathaniel Mackey seriality’s jagged edges are employed to address those wandering, preternaturally exiled others of...
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Chapter 7Afterword

Mossin, Andrew

Pages: 191 –205

[Reading from an old artist’s sketchbook I used as a notebook in the early 1990s, I find this quote from H.D.’s “Amaranth”: Turn if you will from the pathfor one moment seeka lesser beautyand a lesser grace,but you will findno peace in the endsave in her presence.]

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