• 1. State of the Art 2. Artifice of Absorption 3. In the Middle of Modernism in the Middle of Capitalism on the Outskirts of New York 4. Time Out of Motion: Looking Ahead to See Backward 5. Pounding Fascism (Appropriating Ideologies- Mystification, Aestheticization, and Authority in Pound's Poetic Practice) 6. Play It Again, Pac-Man 7. Professing Stein / Stein Professing 8. Optimism and Critical Excess (Process) 9. Censers of the Unknown-Margins, Dissent, and the Poetic Horizon 10. The Second War and Postmodern Memory 11. Comedy and the Poetics of Political Form Acknowledgments

The pieces collected in A Poetics are remarkable not only for the ever-changing spin they put on language, but also for expanding our sense of the consequences of this rethinking of poetic form(s) in the broadest sense.

• 1. State of the Art 2. Artifice of Absorption 3. In the Middle of Modernism in the Middle of Capitalism on the Outskirts of New York 4. Time Out of Motion: Looking Ahead to See Backward 5. Pounding Fascism (Appropriating Ideologies- Mystification, Aestheticization, and Authority in Pound's Poetic Practice) 6. Play It Again, Pac-Man 7. Professing Stein / Stein Professing 8. Optimism and Critical Excess (Process) 9. Censers of the Unknown-Margins, Dissent, and the Poetic Horizon 10. The Second War and Postmodern Memory 11. Comedy and the Poetics of Political Form Acknowledgments

The pieces collected in A Poetics are remarkable not only for the ever-changing spin they put on language, but also for expanding our sense of the consequences of this rethinking of poetic form(s) in the broadest sense.

• 1. State of the Art 2. Artifice of Absorption 3. In the Middle of Modernism in the Middle of Capitalism on the Outskirts of New York 4. Time Out of Motion: Looking Ahead to See Backward 5. Pounding Fascism (Appropriating Ideologies- Mystification, Aestheticization, and Authority in Pound's Poetic Practice) 6. Play It Again, Pac-Man 7. Professing Stein / Stein Professing 8. Optimism and Critical Excess (Process) 9. Censers of the Unknown-Margins, Dissent, and the Poetic Horizon 10. The Second War and Postmodern Memory 11. Comedy and the Poetics of Political Form Acknowledgments

The pieces collected in A Poetics are remarkable not only for the ever-changing spin they put on language, but also for expanding our sense of the consequences of this rethinking of poetic form(s) in the broadest sense.