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Attention equals life : the pursuit of the everyday in contemporary poetry and culture / Andrew Epstein

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Epstein, Andrew, 1969-
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Pursuit of the everyday in contemporary poetry and culture
Published
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2016]
Copyright Date
©2016
Physical Description
xi, 364 pages ; 24 cm

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Contents
Introduction: the poetics of everyday life since 1945 -- The crisis of attention, everyday life theory, and contemporary poetry -- "Each day so different, yet still alike": James Schuyler and the elusive everyday -- "Tthe tiny invites attention": A. R. Ammons's quotidian muse -- Writing the maternal everyday: Bernadette Mayer and her "daughters" (Hoa Nguyen, Susan Holbrook, Laynie Browne) -- "There is no content here, only dailiness": poetry as critique of everyday life in Ron Silliman's Ketjak -- Everyday life projects in contemporary poetry and culture (Kenneth Goldsmith, Claudia Rankine, Brenda Coultas, Harryette Mullen) -- Conclusion: Claudia Rankine's citizen and beyond.
Summary
"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" --
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ISBN
9780199972128 (cloth)
0199972125 (cloth)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-346) and index.
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