Poetics and Justice in America, Japan, and Taiwan

Dean Anthony Brink is professor in the department of foreign languages and literatures at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University.

• Introduction: Poetic Configurations and Intertextuality after Badiou and Angenot Part I: On Ecological Engagement in American PoetryChapter 1: Romantic and Anthropocentric Agency in Contemporary American EcopoetryPart II: Social and Ecological Criticism in Contemporary Japanese PoetryChapter 2: Post-Bubble Satirical Verse in Neoliberal JapanChapter 3: Nuclear Hegemony and Material Indices: The Verse Boom after FukushimaChapter 4: Tawara Machi’s Classical Pop Poetics of Consumerism and TravelPart III: Settling Scores: Poetry Out of the New York School and BeyondChapter 5: Racialization, Sound, and Affiliations of Change in Amiri Baraka’s Performance PoetryChapter 6: Sun Ra’s Chromatic Affirmations: Subtractive Collaboration and AfrofuturismChapter 7: Situating Intentionality and Social Critique in the Poetry and Performance of John Cage and Rodrigo ToscanoChapter 8: The Double Edge of Indifference in John Ashbery’s Late WorkPart IV: Poetry of Emergent CommunitiesChapter 9: Human Right

If this book were half as amazing it would still be remarkable. the theorizing offers an original and important take on Badiou; the readings of poems are precise and the scope of reference gorgeously transcultural, with the focus on the U.S., Japan, and Taiwan; and the treatment of politics plausible and often compelling, How can one go wrong with a book that announces early on that the author learned to read the New York poets through the intertextual strategies of classical Japanese work?