Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgments and Permissions; Introduction; Questioning Poetics; Language Writing; Material Practices; Periodizing Language; Constructing Frames; Formal Agency; Coda: Consequences; Chapter 1: The Turn to Language and the 1960s; Continuing the 1960s; Poetry as Political Speech; Emancipating Enlightenment; Fiat Lux; Hari Om Namo Shivaya; Impossibility as Politics; The Turn to Language in Poetry; Constructivist Poetics; Chapter 2: Late Capitalism and Language Writing; Late Capitalism; Language Writing; Radical Particulars; Headless Heads; Serial Transgressions.
  • Chapter 3: Collective Autobiography: The Grand Piano and the Politics of CommunityPiano; Forte; Beginnings; Middles; Ends; Coda; Chapter 4: Periodizing the Present: Language Writing, Conceptual Art, and Conceptual Writing; Writing the Present; The Conceptual Date; Conceptual Writing; Chapter 5: On the Advantages of Negativity: Avant-Garde Poetry, New Music, Postindustrial Art; Negativity; Performative Poetics; New Music; Postindustrial Art; Critical Agency; Chapter 6: The Expanded Object of the Poetic Field: Or, What Is a Poet/Critic?; Object Lessons; Subject Formations; Notes; Bibliography.