Radium of the word: a poetics of materiality
"The artist Edgar Degas once wrote to his friend the poet Stephane Mallarme to complain that he could never write a satisfactory poem, even though he was full of ideas. "My dear Degas," Mallarme replied, "one doesn't write poetry with ideas; one writes poetry with words." Mallar…
The prosaic imagination -- The onomastic imagination -- The logic of the work (on P. Inman) -- The logic of print (on Russell Atkins) -- The logic of spacing (on N.H. Pritchard) -- The logic of registration (on Andy Warhol). "The artist Edgar Degas once wrote to his friend the …
Introduction: Resultless Enterprises -- Common-Sense Envy -- Lyric Disposition -- Bitter Satisfactions -- After Thoughts -- Epilogue: "A Painful Feeling of Strangeness." "The philosopher René Descartes is usually associated with cold reason rather than with feeling, to the exte…
"The philosopher René Descartes is usually associated with cold reason rather than with feeling, to the extent that Rousseau charged his philosophy had "slashed poetry's throat." Andrea Gadberry argues, on the contrary, that Descartes' thought was crucially enabled by early mode…