Attention equals life : the pursuit of the everyday in contemporary poetry and culture / Andrew Epstein.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Publication details: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2018.Edition: 1st edDescription: xi, 364 pages ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780190887407
- 811.5409355 23 EPS
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Originally published: 2016.
1. Introduction: the poetics of everyday life since 1945 --
2. The crisis of attention, everyday life theory, and contemporary poetry --
3. "Each day so different, yet still alike": James Schuyler and the elusive everyday --
4. "The tiny invites attention": A.R. Ammons's quotidian muse --
5. Writing the maternal every day: Bernadette Mayer and her "daughters" (Hoa Nguyen, Susan Holbrook, Laynie Browne) --
6. "There is no content here, only dailiness": poetry as critique of everyday life in Ron Silliman's Ketjak --
7. Everyday-life projects in contemporary poetry and culture (Kenneth Goldsmith, Claudia Rankine, Brenda Coultas, Harryette Mullen)
8. Conclusion: Claudia Rankine's Citizen and beyond.
"Attention Equals Life examines why a quest to pay attention to daily life has increasingly become a central feature of both contemporary American poetry and the wider culture of which it is a part"--
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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