1. Introduction: Thinking Poetry Peter Nicholls and Peter Boxall 2. Poetic Thought J.H. Prynne 3. The Melodics of Long Poems Simon Jarvis 4. Open Oppen: Linguistic fragmentation and the poetic proposition Peter Middleton 5. Pound's New Criticism Rebecca Beasley 6. La filosofica famiglia: Cavalcanti, Avicenna, and the 'form' of Ezra Pound's Pisan Cantos Ronald Bush 7. Cold Noses at the Pearly Gates Maud Ellmann 8. Language in Migration: Multilingualism and exophonic writing in the new poetics Marjorie Perloff 9. Glossing Gloss and its Undertow John Wilkinson 10. Wrong Poetry Keston Sutherland
Biography
Peter Nicholls is Professor of English at New York University, USA. His publications include Ezra Pound: Politics, Economics and Writing (1984), Modernisms: A Literary Guide (1995), George Oppen and the Fate of Modernism (2007) and many articles and essays on literature and theory. He was editor of Textual Practice from 2002-8.
Peter Boxall is Professor of English at the University of Sussex, UK. Recent books include Don DeLillo: The Possibility of Fiction (2006) and Since Beckett: Contemporary Writing in the Wake of Modernism (2009). He has been the editor of Textual Practice since 2009.
