Poetry and Pedagogy: The Challenge of the Contemporary

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction....Pages 1-10
Front Matter....Pages 11-12
“Isn’t the Avant-garde Always Pedagogical”: Experimental Poetics and/as Pedagogy....Pages 13-29
FFFFFalling with Poetry: The Centrifugal Classroom....Pages 30-38
Reading for Affect in the Lyric: From Modern to Contemporary....Pages 39-62
)Writing Writing(....Pages 63-79
New World Studies and the Limits of National Literatures....Pages 80-104
Beyond Rainbows: What Hawai‘i’s “Local” Poetry Has Taught Me about Pedagogy....Pages 105-125
Front Matter....Pages 127-128
Post-Literary Poetry, Counterperformance, and Micropoetries....Pages 129-147
The Difficult Poem....Pages 148-150
Deformance and Interpretation....Pages 151-180
Performance as Critical Practice: Nourbese Philip’s “Discourse on the Logic of Language”....Pages 181-193
The Didactic: Learning at Goethe’s Knee....Pages 194-204
Stages of Encounter with a Difficult Text....Pages 205-212
“My Susan Howe” or “Howe to Teach”....Pages 213-223
Gumshoe Poetry....Pages 224-233
Giving Beginning Adult Language Learners a Voice: A Case for Poetry in the Foreign Language Classroom....Pages 234-238
Sex Dolls, Mice, and Mother’s Suitcase....Pages 239-250
Creative Wreading: A Primer....Pages 251-259
Front Matter....Pages 260-274
Between Jihad and McWorld: A Place for Poetry....Pages 275-281
He Has More Than One Ear....Pages 127-128
Notes toward Exploding “Exploding Text: Poetry Performance”....Pages 282-292
Back Matter....Pages 293-294
....Pages 295-298