Attention equals life the pursuit of the everyday in contemporary poetry and culture /
"Attention Equals Life examines why a quest to pay attention to daily life has increasingly become a central feature of both contemporary American poetry and the wider culture of which it is a part" --
| Main Author: | Epstein, Andrew, 1969- |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2016]
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| Physical Description: |
xi, 364 pages ; 24 cm. |
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| Summary: |
"Attention Equals Life examines why a quest to pay attention to daily life has increasingly become a central feature of both contemporary American poetry and the wider culture of which it is a part" -- |
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| Item Description: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-346) and index. "Attention Equals Life examines why a quest to pay attention to daily life has increasingly become a central feature of both contemporary American poetry and the wider culture of which it is a part" -- Provided by publisher. Introduction: the poetics of everyday life since 1945 -- The crisis of attention, everyday life theory, and contemporary poetry -- "Each day so different, yet still alike": James Schuyler and the elusive everyday -- "Tthe tiny invites attention": A. R. Ammons's quotidian muse -- Writing the maternal everyday: Bernadette Mayer and her "daughters" (Hoa Nguyen, Susan Holbrook, Laynie Browne) -- "There is no content here, only dailiness": poetry as critique of everyday life in Ron Silliman's Ketjak -- Everyday life projects in contemporary poetry and culture (Kenneth Goldsmith, Claudia Rankine, Brenda Coultas, Harryette Mullen) -- Conclusion: Claudia Rankine's citizen and beyond. |
| Physical Description: |
xi, 364 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-346) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780199972128 0199972125 |