Preface -- Introduction -- Poetry & Spirit: Against Orthodoxy. 1. Why Mysticism in Twentieth-Century American Poetry; 2. Jerome Rothenberg's Technicians of the Sacred: Transactions between the Indigenous and the Avant-Garde; 3. Judaism as Loss and the Buddhist Element in Michael…
"American Poetry as Transactional Art explores a salient quality of much avant-garde American poetry that has so far lacked sustained treatment: namely, its role as a transactional art. Specifically Fredman describes this role as the ways it consistently engages in conversation,…
by Antin, David, Fredman, Stephen
fromRecencies
"Poet, performance artist, and critic David Antin invented the 'talk poem.' He insisted that his poems be oral and created in front of a live audience, in a specific time and place, with the transcription of the performance adjusted for print by presenting it not in prose but in…
In this book editor Stephen Fredman provides critical introductions to a selection of talk poems from Antin's now out-of-print collections in conjunction with a new interview with the author
"Poet, performance artist, and critic David Antin invented the 'talk poem.' He insisted that his poems be oral and created in front of a live audience, in a specific time and place, with the transcription of the performance adjusted for print by presenting it not in prose but in…