Paradise and Method: Poetry and Praxis (Avant-Garde & Modernism Studies)

Andrews addresses - from a poet's perspective on how to understand and make use of contemporary practice - poetics and its role as a choreographer of discussions and theorizing about meaning. By focusing on the ways in which meaning is produced and challenged in contemporary literary work, Andrews grounds his work in cross-disciplinary theory. He analyzes poetics and the production of meaning; alternative traditions and canons and stylistic resources as a signpost for writing; and innovative contemporary poetry and its break with many of the premises and constraints of even the most forward-looking modernisms.

Literature & Fiction

Andrews, Bruce

Essays & Correspondence

Northwestern University Press

Paradise &amp; Method: Poetics and Praxis collects nearly two decades of work on poetics by one of the pioneers of the "language poetry" movement. Addressing poetics from a poet's perspective, Andrews focuses on the ways in which meaning is produced and challenged. His essays aim "to map out opportunities for making sense (or making noise)--both in reading and writing contemporary literature. At the center has been a desire to explore language, as up close as possible, as a material and social medium for restagings of meaning and power." Andrews analyzes poetics and the production of meaning; alternative traditions and canons; and innovative contemporary poetry, particularly its break with many of the premises and constraints of even the most forward-looking modernisms.

Conceived in 1976 and published in 1980, LEGEND exemplifies the political and linguistic commitments of then-nascent Language writing. Coauthored by Bruce Andrews, Charles Bernstein, Ray DiPalma, Steve McCaffery, and Ron Silliman, the work was composed on typewriters and developed through the mail. The twenty-six poems in the volume bring together every possible permutation of collaborative authorship in one-, two-, three-, and five-author combinations, revealing the evolution of distinctive styles against and in conversation with others. Along with a complete reproduction of the original text, LEGEND: The Complete Facsimile in Context includes a critical introduction by editors Matthew Hofer and Michael Golston, a generous selection of material from the authors' correspondence, and a new collaborative piece by the authors. This book will be an essential resource to students and scholars in twentieth-century poetry and poetics.

LEGEND: The Complete Facsimile in Context (Recencies Series: Research and Recovery in Twentieth-Century American Poetics)

Bernstein, Charles

Silliman, Ron

DiPalma, Ray

McCaffery, Steve

History & Criticism

University of New Mexico Press

Tizzy Boost

Poetry

The Figures

Excommunicate

Potes & Poets Pr

Executive Summary

R&B is a collection of poetry by Bruce Andrews, published in 1983.

R and B

Segue Foundation

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Getting Ready to Have Been Frightened

Roof Books

Fiction. Bruce Andrew's EX WHY ZEE gives us a decade's worth of language from live multi-media performances and collaborations. These performance texts and scores capture the energy that continues to enliven the new art scenes in dance, theatre, music, and poetry. Andrew's work is at the center of these innovations - designed to floodlight the impossible, to maximize meaning at the microphone.

Ex Why Zee

Give Em Enough Rope

Sun & Moon Press

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