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With contributions by- Augusto de Campos, Marjorie Perloff, Donald F. Theall, Gregory L. Ulmer, McKenzie Wark, Alan Sondheim, Darren Tofts, Louis Armand, Steve McCaffery, Charles Bernstein, Ricardo Nirenberg, Simon Critchley, DJ Huppatz, Bob Perelman, Keston Sutherland, Nicole Tomlinson, ulian Savage, Michel Delville, Andrew Norris, Allen Fisher, Steve McCaffery, J. Hillis MillerExploring the boundaries of one of the most contested fields of literarystudy--a field that in fact shares territory with philology, aesthetics,cultural theory, philosophy, and even cybernetics--this volume gathers abody of critical writings that, taken together, broadly delineate apossible poetics of the contemporary. In these essays, the most interestingand distinguished theorists in the field renegotiate the contours of whatmight constitute"contemporary poetics,"ranging from the historical adventof concrete poetry to the current technopoetics of cyberspace. Concernedwith a poetics that extends beyond our own time, as a mere marker ofpresent-day literary activity, their work addresses the limits of a writing"practice"--beginning with Stephane Mallarme in the late nineteenthcentury--that engages concretely with what it means to be contemporary. |
