Notational Experiments in North American Long Poems, 1961-2011

A.J. Carruthers is an Australian-born experimental poet and critic. He is author of AXIS Book 1: Areal, the first volume in a lifelong long poem. He teaches literature and creative writing in Shanghai, and holds editorial posts at Southerly, Rabbit Poetry Review and SOd press.

• .-1 The Notational Template: Langston Hughes’ Ask Your Mama: 12 Moods for Jazz and the “Hesitation Blues”.-2 Long Poem Including Music: Reading the Score in Armand Schwerner’s “Tablet XII”.-3 “No tation”: The Scored Allegorical in BpNichol’s The Martyrology.-4 Joan Retallack’s Errata 5uite and Register Reading.-5 “Music for Posterity”: Afterlives for the Score in Anne Waldman’s The Iovis Trilogy