The sites of inspiration documented in this book range from nineteenth century linguistic theory to postmodern strategies of conceptual writing, encompassing well known instances of modernist poetics (Mallarmé, Pound, Olson) alongside obscure but revealing figures like Otto Nebel and Henri-Martin Barzun.

Autorentext
JED RASULA is Helen S. Lanier Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Georgia, USA.

Inhalt
Shadow Mouth The Murmur Drawing a Blank: Episodes in the Poetics of Unworking Poetry's Voice-Over Gendering the Muse Medusa's Gaze, or Traveling in the Dark 'When the Mind Is Like a Hall': Places of a Possible