Modernist debates about waste - both aesthetic and economic - often express biases against gender and sexual errancy. The Poetics of Waste looks at writers and artists who resist this ideology and respond by developing an excessive poetics.

Autorentext
Christopher Schmidt is Assistant Professor of English at The City University of New York, LaGuardia, USA.

Inhalt
Preface: The Charisma of Waste Introduction: The Poetics of Waste Management 1. Industry and Excess in Gertrude Stein 2. The Queer Nature of Waste in John Ashbery's The Vermont Notebook 3. 'Baby, I am the garbage': Camp Recuperation in James Schuyler 4. Kenneth Goldsmith's Queer Appropriations Afterward: Poetry, Waste, and the Body Politic