WordTech Editions, 2009

Coedited with Susan B. Schultz

“Multiformalisms: Postmodern Poetics of Form explores new directions in poetic form and theory. The “multi” in “multiformalisms” is nothing if not multifarious. This collection of essays by important poets and critics investigates traditional and exploratory forms, as well as the ways cultures and histories have come to shape them. Multiformalisms juxtaposes essays on traditional formalism and flarf; the American long poem and native Hawaiian poetry; rhyme in Paul Muldoon and textual variability in New Media poetry; Susan Howe and Lucinda Roy, jazz and Asian American poetics, and more. Scholars and students of poetry, prosody, and culture will find this a necessary and lively reference to contemporary currents in their fields.”
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TABLE OF CONTENTS

KEVIN MAGEE & K. SILEM MOHAMMAD
Formalista! Rhyming on the
Left Margin

SONIA SANCHEZ/ANNIE FINCH
Form and Spirit:
An Interview with Sonia Sanchez

RACHEL BLAU DuPLESSIS
Copying

JULIANA CHANG
“What Remains”:Race, Poetry,
and John Yau’s “I”

RON SILLIMAN
“As to Violin Music”: Time in
the Longpoem

KU`UALOHA HO`OMANAWANUI
He Lei Ho`oheno No Na Kau a Kau:
Language, Performance, and Form
In Hawaiian Poetry

ANDREW OSBORN
Skirmishes on the Border:
The Evolution and Function of Paul
Muldoon’s Fuzzy Rhyme

JOHN KINSELLA
Distortions. On Questioning the Primacy
of the Accented Syllable: Notes on Alternative
Spatialities For Poetic Rhythm

STEPHEN CUSHMAN
The Ambidexterity
of Lucinda Roy

TYLER B. HOFFMAN
Representing AIDS: Thom Gunn
and The Modalities of Verse

MARILYN HACKER/ANNIE FINCH
A Conversation with
Marilyn Hacker

COLE SWENSON
Seeing Reading:
Susan Howe’s Moving Margins

META DUEWA JONES
Jazz Prosodies:
Orality and Textuality

IRENA PRAITIS
The Semiotics of Subversion:
Plath’s “Daddy” and the Dynamics of Form

HAZEL SMITH
Mutable Forms:
Poetry and the Digital Revolution

HANK LAZER
Notes on Form
as Portal to Permeable Boundaries

ANNE TARDOS
Poetic Form:
It’s What’s for Dinner

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