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        Wittgenstein’s Artillery

        Wittgenstein's Artillery

        Wittgenstein's Artillery

        Philosophy as Poetry

        by James C. Klagge

        ISBN: 9780262045834

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: August 3, 2021

        How Wittgenstein sought a more effective way of reaching his audience by a poetic style of doing philosophy.
        Total Expansion of the Letter

        Total Expansion of the Letter

        Total Expansion of the Letter

        Avant-Garde Art and Language After Mallarmé

        by Trevor Stark

        ISBN: 9780262043717

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: May 26, 2020

        How cubism and Dada radically reimagined the social nature of language, following the utopian poetic vision of Stéphane Mallarmé.
        A Frank O’Hara Notebook

        A Frank O'Hara Notebook

        A Frank O'Hara Notebook

        by Bill Berkson

        Introduction by Ron Padgett

        Afterword by Constance Lewallen

        Edited by Jordan Kantor

        ISBN: 9781949484014

        Publisher: no place press

        Pub Date: April 30, 2019

        A fascinating account of Frank O'Hara in the prime of his creative life in New York, told through notes, images, and poems by his friend Bill Berkson.
        The Spider’s Thread

        The Spider's Thread

        The Spider's Thread

        Metaphor in Mind, Brain, and Poetry

        by Keith J. Holyoak

        ISBN: 9780262039222

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: February 26, 2019

        An examination of metaphor in poetry as a microcosm of the human imagination—a way to understand the mechanisms of creativity.
        Incurable

        Incurable

        Incurable

        The Haunted Writings of Lionel Johnson, the Decadent Era's Dark Angel

        by Lionel P Johnson

        Edited by Nina Antonia

        ISBN: 9781907222627

        Publisher: Strange Attractor Press

        Pub Date: January 15, 2019

        Writings that shed new light on one of the most gifted, if reclusive, poets of the fin-de-siècle.
        Overwrite

        Overwrite

        Overwrite

        Ethics of Knowledge—Poetics of Existence

        by Armen Avanessian

        Translated by Nils F. Schott

        ISBN: 9783956791147

        Publisher: Sternberg Press

        Pub Date: April 7, 2017

        Since the early 1800s, the institution of the university has promoted creativity, critical thinking, and independent research. The more it has yielded to the pressures of the economy, however, the more...
        Like a Woman

        Like a Woman

        Like a Woman

        Essays, Readings, Poems

        by Quinn Latimer

        ISBN: 9783956793158

        Publisher: Sternberg Press

        Pub Date: April 7, 2017

        Quinn Latimer's arresting writings find expression in literature and theory as well as contemporary art and its history. Moving from Southern California to central and southern Europe, crossing geographies...
        Body Sweats

        Body Sweats

        Body Sweats

        The Uncensored Writings of Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven

        by Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven

        Edited by Irene Gammel and Suzanne Zelazo

        ISBN: 9780262529754

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: October 7, 2016

        The first major collection of poetry written in English by the flabbergasting and flamboyant Baroness Elsa, “the first American Dada.”
        Aesthetic Animism

        Aesthetic Animism

        Aesthetic Animism

        Digital Poetry's Ontological Implications

        by David Jhave Johnston

        ISBN: 9780262034517

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: June 3, 2016

        A poetics appropriate to the digital era that connects digital poetry to traditional poetry's concerns with being.
        The Number and the Siren

        The Number and the Siren

        The Number and the Siren

        by Quentin Meillassoux

        Translated by Robin Mackay

        ISBN: 9780983216926

        Publisher: Urbanomic/Sequence Press

        Pub Date: April 6, 2012

        A philosophical interrogation of the concepts of chance, contingency, and eternity through a concentrated study of Mallarmé's poem “Un Coup de Dés.”
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