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The Poetics of Waste

Part of the Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9781137402790

ISBN: 978-1-349-48682-3

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US - Springer Journals

Oct 31, 2015

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Introduction: The Poetics of Waste Management

Schmidt, Christopher

Pages: 1 –25

[The Poetics of Waste argues that before we demonize or disregard waste, we must first understand its often conflicting meanings in the contemporary moment and in the preceding century, when consumer capitalism came to dominate and define American culture. If, as Ezra Pound claimed, artists are...
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Industry and Excess in Gertrude Stein

Schmidt, Christopher

Pages: 27 –56

[To understand the many conflicts circulating in and around Gertrude Stein’s waste management poetics, it may be useful to consider the testimony of an outside reporter. In 1927 William Carlos Williams visited Stein’s salon at 27 rue de Fleurus. Although his visit merits little more than a...
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The Queer Nature of Waste in John Ashbery’s The Vermont Notebook

Schmidt, Christopher

Pages: 57 –90

[In 1957, soon after the release of his first volume of poems, John Ashbery was asked by Poetry magazine to review Gertrude Stein’s posthumously published Stanzas in Meditation. The title of Ashbery’s review, “The Impossible: Gertrude Stein,” was not intended to dissuade the reader from...
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“Baby, I Am the Garbage”: Camp Recuperation in James Schuyler

Schmidt, Christopher

Pages: 91 –122

[For James Schuyler, more than any other writer considered in this project, the recuperation of waste bears not only on aesthetic practice but also on his subject position, a limit case in abjection. Schuyler was not merely a poet but a poet maudit: impecunious, mentally unstable, queer,...
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Kenneth Goldsmith’s Queer Appropriations

Schmidt, Christopher

Pages: 123 –156

[A central goal of The Poetics of Waste has been to question the apolitical pretenses of those seeking a “pure” formalism free of errancy, deviancy, and waste. In the introduction to this book, I examined how aesthetic debates circulating around waste and efficiency in modernism screened cultural...
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Afterword Poetry, Waste, and the Body Politic

Schmidt, Christopher

Pages: 157 –166

[This book begins with Wall-E and ends with Kenneth Goldsmith— one a cartoon robot, one a “word processor”—both machinic waste managers who labor alone, collecting detritus into monumental archives ordered by elaborate and sometimes recondite rules of classification (see figure. 5.1). These...

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