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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.
Poems for Political Disaster

Poems for Political Disaster

Poems for Political Disaster

Edited by Timothy Donnelly, B. K. Fischer, Stefania Heim and Matt Lord

Foreword by Juan Felipe Herrera

ISBN: 9781946511010

Publisher: Boston Review

Pub Date: October 20, 2017

"In time of crisis, we summon up our strength," wrote poet Muriel Rukeyser. This collection gathers poems—from the eve of the twenty-first century to the month following Trump's election—to mark...
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...
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.
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