Disjunctive poetics: from Gertrude Stein and Louis Zukofsky to Susan Howe

1993 ◽  
Vol 30 (07) ◽  
pp. 30-3689-30-3689
Author(s):  
Judith Hall

Think, when we talk of poetry, you see Shakespeare? Here, in proud America? This chapter traces how his various treasures have been turned, generation by generation, into often contradictory practices—by Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman, by T. S. Eliot and Gertrude Stein, by Cole Porter and Louis Zukofsky, by Frederick Seidel and Susan Howe, and others. Such poets have done more with his texts than gild a single monologue with one of his admired characters, and although his name is now no more analogous to poetry than power, Shakespeare continues to figure in American poetry and how it is imagined.


1993 ◽  
Vol 65 (3) ◽  
pp. 590
Author(s):  
Brian Conniff ◽  
Peter Quartermain

Author(s):  
Arun Kumar Pokhrel

Modernist organicism emphasizes the interrelationship between the natural world and society, and links sociocultural changes with nature, biology, and aesthetic forms in imagining the human being—and society—as organic structures. Modernist organicist aesthetics follow the modernist organic principle of art, "form follows function." Crucial to the theory of modernist organicism are theories of biology and life such as those of Charles Darwin, Henri Bergson, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Herbert Spencer. Importantly, modernist organicist aesthetics emphasizes a sense of place or region and ecological consciousness (e.g., the Garden City movement in Britain in the early 20th century and the cultural or anthropological turn of the 1930s). A list of modernist organicists might include D. H. Lawrence, and later Virginia Woolf, E. M. Forster, Patrick Geddes, Ebenezer Howard, Richard Llewellyn, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Lewis Mumford, Willa Cather, Mina Loy, Gertrude Stein, William Carlos Williams, and Louis Zukofsky, to name only a few. These artists viewed nature as a living force and showed the interdependence between nature and human beings.


Author(s):  
Robert Carlton Brown

This is the much-anticipated new edition of the important volume of avant-garde writing, Readies for Bob Brown's Machine. The original collection of Readies was published by Brown’s Roving Eye Press in 1931. Despite including works by leading modernist writers including Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Kay Boyle, F.T. Marinetti, and 35 other writers and artists, this volume has never been re-issued. Like the ‘talkies’ in cinema, Brown’s machine and the ‘readies’ medium he created for it proposed to revolutionise reading with technology by scrolling texts across a viewing screen. Apart from its importance to modernism, Brown’s research on reading seems remarkably prescient in light of text messaging, e-books, and internet media ecologies. Brown’s designs for a modernist style of reading, which emphasised speed, movement, and immediacy, required a complete re-design of reading and writing technology. Complete with a new Preface by Eric White and a new Introduction and a separate chapter on the contributors by Craig Saper, this critical facsimile edition restores to public attention the extraordinary experiments of writing readies for a reading machine.


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