Rethinking the North American Long Poem

Acknowledgments

Introduction. Form, Matter, Experiment and the North American Long Poem
Ridvan Askin and Julius Greve

Part I. Form
Chapter One. Assemblage as a Genre of the Long Poem
Rachel Blau DuPlessis
Chapter Two. Incompleteness: The Project of the Long Poem
Nathan Brown
Chapter Three. “A Restless Surface”: Everyday Phenomenology in James Schuyler’s Long Poems
Matthew Carbery

Part II. Matter
Chapter Four. Matter, Rhetoric, and Ambient Form in Susan Howe’s Poetic Space
Brian J. McAllister
Chapter Five. Paterson’s Analogies: Iteration, Recursion, and Contingency
Paul Jaussen
Chapter Six. Against Spectatorship: “Being with” in Claudia Rankine’s Long Poems
Kathy Lou Schultz

Part III. Experiment
Chapter Seven. The Paradise of Rock-Drill: Far-Right Politics in the Late Cantos of Ezra Pound
Josephine Nock-Hee Park
Chapter Eight. Petitionary Long Poems: Layli Long Soldier, Juliana Spahr, and Srikanth Reddy
Peter Middleton
Chapter Nine. Whitman’s Long, Long Poem
Sascha Pöhlmann

Notes on Contributors