Poetics and Precarity

Myung Mi Kim is James H. McNulty Chair of English at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. She is the author of several books of poetry, including Penury, Dura, and Under Flag, winner of the Multicultural Publishers Exchange Award of Merit. Cristanne Miller is SUNY Distinguished Professor and Edward H. Butler Professor of English Literature at the University at Buffalo. She is the author of many books, including Reading in Time: Emily Dickinson in the Nineteenth Century and Cultures of Modernism: Marianne Moore, Mina Loy, and Else Lasker-Schüler.

• List of Figures Acknowledgments IntroductionMyung Mi Kim and Cristanne Miller Breath and Precarity: The Inaugural Robert Creeley Lecture in Poetry and PoeticsNathaniel Mackey The Ga(s)p M. NourbeSe Philip Precarity Shared: Breathing as Tactic in Air’s Uneven CommonsJennifer Scappettone On Not Missing ItElizabeth Willis Here and Elsewhere: Creeley’s Notions of Community and Teaching as CirculationVincent Broqua Constructive Alterities & the Agonistic Feminine Joan Retallack Precarity, Poetry, and the Practice of Countermapping Adalaide Morris and Stephen Voyce Supine, Prone, PrecariousSarah Dowling The Opening of the (Transnational Battle) Field Heriberto YépezAppendix 1: Poetry in the Making: A Bibliography of Publications by Graduate Students in the Poetics Program, 1991–2016James Maynard Appendix 2: Schedule for the Robert Creeley Lecture and Celebration of Poetry, April 7–10, 2016 Appendix 3: "Poetics: (The Next) 25 Years" Conference, Seminar Topics and Participants, April 9–10, 2016 List of Contributors Index

"Poetics and Precarity, edited by Myung Mi Kim and Cristanne Miller, works variously. The collection is part institutional festschrift, part archival documentation, part response to a conceptual call to think about breath and precarity, and part contribution to an ongoing intervention in the field of contemporary poetry and poetics." — ASAP/Journal