Differentials: Poetry, Poetics, Pedagogy

Contents

Acknowledgments vii

Introduction: Differential Reading xi

1. Crisis in the Humanities? Recon¤guring Literary Study for the
   Twenty-¤rst 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. “Logocinéma 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 Bök
    and Caroline Bergvall 205


12. Filling the Space with Trace: Tom Raworth’s “Letters
    from Yaddo” 227