
The Poetics of Agency
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In the decades following the Second World War, poetry in the U.S. was marked by a resurgence of manifesto culture, where practitioners and scholars from a range of political persuasions debated fiercely the common presumptions underpinning the practice and interpretation of poetry. These debates were all primarily concerned with the agency of poetic writing and performance, including what cognitive or affective processes particular formal arrangements can be said to enact within a reader, or how different approaches to the writing and reading of poetry might encourage more desirable modes of acting in the world. Looking specifically at the work of Charles Olson, Langston Hughes, Frank O'Hara and Denise Levertov, this book asks what role poetry plays in conceptualising human agency, and what interdisciplinary place the practice of poetry has within questions typically framed by the disciplines of philosophy and the social sciences.
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Introduction: The Poetics of Agency
Part one: Claiming Agency
1. Squaring the Circle: Charles Olson Between Land and Sea
2. The Maximus Poems: Tidal Dislocations, Earthly Pivots, Cosmic Silence 95
Part two: Surviving Agency
3. 'Late' Langston Hughes and the Agency of Interstitial Space
4. Improvisation and Embodiment in Montage of a Dream Deferred
Part Three: Mediating Agency
5. Newsprint, Cinema, Radio, Television: Medial Friction in Frank O'Hara's Poetry
6. 'These dedlie strokes': Biotherm and the Song of His Salves
Part Four: Mourning Agency
7. Vulnerable Elegies: Denise Levertov and the Mourning of Agency
8. 'fragments of light': Holding to the Act in Relearning the Alphabet
Coda: I-Who?-Sing America
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