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Before Starting Over is an informal chronicle of several important developments in English-language poetry during the nineties and the turn of the century, most importantly Asian American poetry, digital poetics, and the changing face of poetry's "experimental" wing. There is nothing pious about the approach: one chapter is a distillation of conversations and controversies that occurred on the internet via the author's blog, Free Space Comix, while another is largely composed of playful and polemical "poetics" statements geared toward a popular - i.e. non-elitist or -insider - audience. Consquently, nothing is taken for granted, whether it be the efficacy of a central literary Tradition, or the primacy of the "marginal" or aesthetic "lineages" that are valorized in smaller writing communities identifying with either the "avant-garde" or ethnic minorities (or both). Included are several book reviews by the author that attempt to create a language for discussing the most "difficult" poetry of the past fifteen years energetically and engagingly, in a manner that is neither sugared up nor requiring a doctoral degree to decipher. Several interviews discuss strands of "digital poetics" that were not discussed in the author's Fashionable Noise: On Digital Poetics, especially notions of "hacktivism," internet publishing and the poetics of the anti-war blog Circulars. All in all, the experience of reading Before Starting Over is in which the reader is invited to disagree, to argue, but most of all to feel as passionate, troubled yet optimistic about poetry as the author, one of the more active and intelligent (uh huh) poets and critics to mobilize both the internet and journalistic print publications to examine and champion emerging strands in writing.
Contents
PREFACES
"Poet-Critic"
I. SIX REVIEWS
Tan Lin, BlipSoak01
Christian Bök, Eunoia
Kevin Davies, Comp.
Bruce Andrews, Paradise & Method; Lyn Hejinian, The Language of Inquiry
Alice Notley, Disobedience
W. S. Graham, New Collected Poems
II. ASIAN AMERICAN POETRY
Voicebox
In Search of Lost Time: Walter K. Lew's Excerpts from Dikte/Dictee
On the Introduction to The Open Boat
Remote Parsee: An Alternative Grammar to North Asian American Poetry
III. A POETICS OF VIRTUOSITY
A Poetics of Virtuosity
IV. REFLECTIONS IN A GLASS HOUSE
After Language Poetry
Veronica Forrest-Thomson
Fence Letter
Ezra Pound
Open Letter to Brendan Lorber
Frank O'Hara
Bruce Andrews, I Don't Have Any Paper So Shut Up (Or, Social Romanticism)
A Poem for Tyros
When Lilacs Last in the Door
Jeff Derksen, Dwell
Tim Davis, Dailies
Jennifer Moxley, Wrong Life
Suzanne Dathe of Grenoble, France - Can We Win? (On Carol Mirakove's Poetry)
Steve McCaffery, Three Books
V. SILLIMAN COMMENTARIES
Blogs, by Marianne Moore
Silliman Commentaries
VI. DIGITAL POETICS
Interview with Sylvia Egger
Statement for Orono, Maine
Iowa Review Web Interview
Statement for Slought
Brooklyn Rail Interview
Towards a Poetics for Circulars
Interview of Albanian Arts Magazine
VII. LITTLE REVIEWS
Jeff Derksen, Transnational Muscle Cars
Bill Luoma, Works & Days
Stacy Doris, Conference
Dan Farrell, Last Instance
Renee Gladman, Juice
Kenneth Goldsmith, Day
Jessica Grim, Fray
Pamela Lu, Pamela: A Novel
Christophe Tarkos, Ma Langue est Poétique: Selected Work
Rodrigo Toscano, Partisans
Jose Garcia Villa, The Anchored Angel: Selected Writings
Darren Wershler-Henry, The Tapeworm Foundry
Harryette Mullen, Muse & Drudge
Susan Wheeler, Source Codes
Joel Kuszai (editor), poetics@
Caroline Bergvall, Goan Atom
