Scope and Contents L. "les193" Amazon.com: Perloff is one of the great boosters of the 'alternative modernists' -- the theme of this book -- and spends a good deal of time in the trenches, doing polemical readings of recent poets in the avant-garde. Lyn Heijnian versus, e.g., Seamus Heaney -- Perloff wants radical approaches, and she finds the best of those who'll never be reviewed in the New York Times because of their newness. Maybe fifty years from now, the Times will pretend that, of course, we all knew they were great from the start. Obscure to god-like, with no intervening step. In contrast to some of the avant-garde LANGUAGE types, Perloff is fair and low BS when it comes to her criticism (constrast Charles Bernstein's insufferable Poetics.) Her close readings are in the style of someone like Helen Vendler (although Perloff and Vendler are near-contemporaries, so it's unlikely that one's derivative of the other.) There aren't many people who can write with such acuity -- the only thing worse...

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Perloff states "It is the paradox of postmodern genre that the more radical the dissolution of traditional generic boundaries, the more important the concept of genericity becomes. "Hubert contributes an essay critically analyzing the book "Une Piece Ciruclaire" and Perloff one on Cage's "Roaratorio;" both books are held by Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Perloff demonstrates that contempory experimental poetry is highly influenced by the media of television, sound bytes and billboards. Taking an historical approach, she notes that the speech base is no longer the common speech of Yeats and Eliot but the personal utterance of the poet. She cites Charles Olsen in his manifesto "Projective Verse" (1950) who stated that "breath allows all the speech-force of language back in (speech is the solid of verse, is the secret of a poem's energy) p.34. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This issue deals with post-modern poetry in English. It is the penultimate isssue of Sulfur. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book consists of a reprinting of ten essays written for specific occasions that were published between 1981 and 1984. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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In this book, Perloff traces the history of modern poetry mainly through such poets as Rimbaud, Apollinaire, Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, Sanuel Beckett, John Ashbery, David Antin and John Cage. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Nancy Perloff writes about "Sound Poetry and the Musical Avant Garde." Antonio Sergio Bessa contributes an essay "Sound as Subject: Augusto de Campos's Poetamenos." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a review of the writings of Marjorie Perloff. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.