Prior to Meaning collects a decade of writing on poetry, language, and the theory of writing by one of the most innovative and conceptually challenging poets of the last twenty-five years. In essays that are wide ranging, richly detailed, and novel in their surprising juxtapositions of disparate material, Steve McCaffery works to undo the current bifurcation between theory and practice--to show how a poetic text might be the source rather than the product of the theoretical against which it must be read.
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Prior to Meaning collects a decade of writing on poetry, language, and the theory of writing by one of the most innovative and conceptually challenging poets of the last twenty-five years. In essays that are wide ranging, richly detailed, and novel in their surprising juxtapositions of disparate material, Steve McCaffery works to undo the current bifurcation between theory and practice--to show how a poetic text might be the source rather than the product of the theoretical against which it must be read.
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Minor rubbing. Small label to rear cover, VG. 23x15cm, xxiii, 339 pp. Contents: Insufficiency of Theory to Poetical Economy; Zarathustran ' Pataphysics; Blaser's Deleuzean Folds; Charles Olson's Art of Language; Richard Bentlety: The First Poststructuralist? Johnson & Wittgenstein: Some Correltations & Bifurcations; Between Verbi Voco & Visual: Some Precursors of Grammatology; Sade: Writing & Modernity; Temporality & the New Sentence; Voice in Extremis; Jackson Mac Low: Samsara in Lagado; The Scandal of Sincerity: Toward a Levinasian Poetics.
