Contents
Introduction
Chapter One, The Politics of Genre
Poetry and Memory
Translation and the Lyric Genre
Literacy and the Poetic Imagination
Chapter Two, Righting and Rewriting Poetry
World and Provincial Literatures
From Rhetorical Verse to Translation Practice
Discursive Style, Democratic Forms
Chapter Three, Toward Open Poems and the Lyrical Prose of Mausoleum: Poetry Meets News and Theory
Open Poems
Poetry and Industry
Counter-readings and Counterfeiting
Chapter Four, Poetic Survival: Chaos Theory and the Recovery of the Lyric
Chaos Theory
Cryptograms, Didactics, Poetry
Recursion, Nature, Poetry
Chapter Five, Et Ego: Identity Papers and Mental Leaps
Nationalism, Global Culture, and the Author's Persona
Hybrid Culture: Forché and Enzensberger
Modes of Reflection: Toward a Poetics of Postmodernism and Late Style
Conclusion
Selected Bibliography