Pop Poetics

by Andy Fitch

Overview

Pop artists often get praised or criticized for their use of commercial imagery, and yet their contributions-particularly to literature-are generally ignored in preference to a focus on precisely this sort of "lowbrow" iconography.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781564787286
Publisher:	Deep Vellum Publishing
Publication date:	08/07/2012
Pages:	251
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.80(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Andy Fitch's most recent books are SIXTY MORNING WALKS and SIXTY MORNING TALKS, both published by Ugly Duckling Presse in 2014, Pop Poetics: Reframing Joe Brainard, and his collaboration with Amaranth Borsuk, AS WE KNOW (Subito Press, 2014). His second collaboration with Jon Cotner, following TEN WALKS/TWO TALKS (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2010), CONVERSATIONS OVER STOLEN FOOD, will be published by 1913 Press in 2015. For Letter Machine Editions, he and Cristiana Baik are currently assembling THE LETTER MACHINE BOOK OF INTERVIEWS. Fitch edits The Conversant and Essay Press. He teaches in the University of Wyoming's MFA program.

Table of Contents

Author's Note ix

Introduction: Blowing up Paper Bags to Pop: Joe Brainard's Almost Autobiographical Assemblage 3

Chapter 1 Personal/Perspectivist Space: Pop Poetry's Differential Calculus 43

Chapter 2 Serial Alternatives: Additive, Translatable, Productivist Poetry 75

Chapter 3 Serial Sixties: Monet, Warhol, Brainard 119

Chapter 4 Serial Realism: Poetic Narrative in Perspectives 159

Notes 188

Works Cited 238