Communism and Poetry

Ruth Jennison is Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary American Poetry at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA.  She is the author of The Zukofsky Era: Modernity, Margins, and The Avant-Garde (2012) and articles and book chapters on twentieth- and twenty-first-century American  poetics, Marxism and the political economies of literary form.  Julian Murphet is Scientia Professor of English and Film Studies at UNSW Sydney, Australia, where he directs study in English, Creative Writing and Film. He is the author of Literature and Race in Los Angeles (2001), Multimedia Modernism (2009), Faulkner’s Media Romance (2017) and Todd Solondz(2019).

• 1. Introduction, Ruth Jennison and Julian Murphet.- 2. The Other Minimal Demand, Joshua Clover and Christopher Nealon.- 3. The Relation Between Poetry and Poems is Political, Sometimes, Sean Pryor.- 4.  "Everywhere Worlds Connect": Realist Poetics and the Ecologies of Capitalism, Margaret Ronda.- 5. "The Changing Same": Value in Marx and Amiri Baraka, Tyrone Williams.- 6. Mayakovsky at Mirafori: Operaismo and the Negation of Poetry, Alberto Toscano.- 7. Sean Bonney: Poet Out of Time, Andrea Brady.- 8. Notes on Poetry and Communism: Abolition, Solidarity, Love, Rob Halpern.- 9. "Wide as Targes Let Them Be," or, How a Poem is a Barricade, Julian Murphet.- 10. "A Whole New Set of Stars": Poetics and Revolutionary Consciousness, Ruth Jennison.- 11. Free Disassociation/ Logic, Keston Sutherland.- 12. Just Come Now, Justin Clemens.