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Volume 120, Number 1, January 2005
Special Topic: On Poetry
Coordinated by Bruce R. Smith
CONTENTS:
Introduction: Some Presuppositions
Bruce R. Smith
On the Misery of Theory without Poetry: Heidegger's Reading of Hölderlin's "Andenken"
Avital Ronell
On Not Defending Poetry: Spenser, Suffering, and the Energy of Affect
Joseph Campana
The Ethical Uselessness of Grief: Randall Jarrell's "The Refugees"
R. Clifton Spargo
The Strange Case of Araki Yasusada: Author, Object
Eric R. J. Hayot
Fugitive Lyric: The Rhymes of the Canting Crew
Daniel Tiffany
Poetry and Theory: A Roundtable
Phonic Matters: French Sound Poetry, Julia Kristeva, and Bernard Heidsieck
Carrie Noland
Mallarmé's Cinepoetics: The Poem Uncoiled by the Cinématographe, 1893-98
Christophe Wall-Romana
Standing on the Burning Deck: Poetry, Performance, History
Catherine Robson
A Box for Wilfrid Blunt
Lucy McDiarmid
"Everything We Want": Frank O'Hara and the Aesthetics of Free Choice
Michael Clune
The Muse of Indifference
Eric C. Walker
Three Approaches to Poetry
Virginie Greene
What Praise Poems Are For
Susan Stewart
Forum
Raffaella Baccolini, David Ketterer, and Eric S. Rabkin