Wreading: A Poetics of Awareness, or How Do We Know What We Know?
A diverse collection of essays and interviews on reading, teaching, and writing poetry from a preeminent critic and scholar
 
Jed Rasula is a distinguished scholar of avant-garde poetics, noted for his erudition, intellectual range, and critical independence. Wreading: A Poetics of Awareness, or How Do We Know What We Know? is a collection of essays and interviews that reflects the breadth and diversity of his curiosity.

While this volume presents highlights from Rasula’s criticism, it also serves as a carefully assembled intellectual autobiography. Wreading consists of two parts: an assortment of Rasula’s solo criticism and selected interviews and conversations with other poets and scholars. These detailed conversations are with Evelyn Reilly, Leonard Schwartz, Tony Tost, Mike Chasar, Joel Bettridge, and Ming-Qian Ma. Their exchanges address ecopoetics, the corporate university, the sheer volume of contemporary poetry, and more. This substantial set of dialogues gives readers a glimpse inside a master critic’s deeply informed critical practice, illuminating his intellectual touchstones.

The balance between essay and interview achieves a distillation of Rasula’s long-established idea of “wreading.” In his original use, the term denotes how any act of criticism inherently adds to the body of writing that it purports to read. In this latest form, Wreading captures a critical perception that sparks insight and imagination, regardless of what it sees.
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Wreading: A Poetics of Awareness, or How Do We Know What We Know?
A diverse collection of essays and interviews on reading, teaching, and writing poetry from a preeminent critic and scholar
 
Jed Rasula is a distinguished scholar of avant-garde poetics, noted for his erudition, intellectual range, and critical independence. Wreading: A Poetics of Awareness, or How Do We Know What We Know? is a collection of essays and interviews that reflects the breadth and diversity of his curiosity.

While this volume presents highlights from Rasula’s criticism, it also serves as a carefully assembled intellectual autobiography. Wreading consists of two parts: an assortment of Rasula’s solo criticism and selected interviews and conversations with other poets and scholars. These detailed conversations are with Evelyn Reilly, Leonard Schwartz, Tony Tost, Mike Chasar, Joel Bettridge, and Ming-Qian Ma. Their exchanges address ecopoetics, the corporate university, the sheer volume of contemporary poetry, and more. This substantial set of dialogues gives readers a glimpse inside a master critic’s deeply informed critical practice, illuminating his intellectual touchstones.

The balance between essay and interview achieves a distillation of Rasula’s long-established idea of “wreading.” In his original use, the term denotes how any act of criticism inherently adds to the body of writing that it purports to read. In this latest form, Wreading captures a critical perception that sparks insight and imagination, regardless of what it sees.
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A diverse collection of essays and interviews on reading, teaching, and writing poetry from a preeminent critic and scholar
 
Jed Rasula is a distinguished scholar of avant-garde poetics, noted for his erudition, intellectual range, and critical independence. Wreading: A Poetics of Awareness, or How Do We Know What We Know? is a collection of essays and interviews that reflects the breadth and diversity of his curiosity.

While this volume presents highlights from Rasula’s criticism, it also serves as a carefully assembled intellectual autobiography. Wreading consists of two parts: an assortment of Rasula’s solo criticism and selected interviews and conversations with other poets and scholars. These detailed conversations are with Evelyn Reilly, Leonard Schwartz, Tony Tost, Mike Chasar, Joel Bettridge, and Ming-Qian Ma. Their exchanges address ecopoetics, the corporate university, the sheer volume of contemporary poetry, and more. This substantial set of dialogues gives readers a glimpse inside a master critic’s deeply informed critical practice, illuminating his intellectual touchstones.

The balance between essay and interview achieves a distillation of Rasula’s long-established idea of “wreading.” In his original use, the term denotes how any act of criticism inherently adds to the body of writing that it purports to read. In this latest form, Wreading captures a critical perception that sparks insight and imagination, regardless of what it sees.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780817393915
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Publication date: 03/29/2022
Series: Modern and Contemporary Poetics
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 360
File size: 8 MB

About the Author

Jed Rasula is Helen S. Lanier Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Georgia and author of a dozen books, including Syncopations: The Stress of Innovation in Contemporary American Poetry, Destruction Was My Beatrice: Dada and the Unmaking of the Twentieth Century, and History of a Shiver: The Sublime Impudence of Modernism.

 

Table of Contents

Contents

List of Illustrations

Preface

Acknowledgments

Essays

A Potential Intelligence: The Case of the Disappearing Poets

From Corset to Podcast: Or, the Condition of Poetry When Everybody Is a Poet

Bringing in the Trash: The Cultural Ecology of Dada

Deep Image

Flesh Dream Books

Panorama, Sentence by Sentence: The Alphabet by Ron Silliman

Anarchy in an Environment That Works

From Verse Narratives to Documentary Poetry: Enhancements—and Enchantments—of the Poetry Book

Exchanges

Global Scale and Transient Occasions: An Interview with Evelyn Reilly on This Compost

At Work on the Incalculable: A Radio Interview with Leonard Schwartz on This Compost

From Ripley’s Believe It or Not to Finnegans Wake: An Interview with Tony Tost on Imagining Language

Glut Reactions: An Exchange with Mike Chasar on the Demographics of American Poetry

Serendipities: An Interview with Joel Bettridge on Critical Practices

An Ocean—a Notion—of Poetry: An Interview with Ming-Qian Ma

Standing Bare to the Blast: An Exchange with Nathan Brown on Modernism

Notes

Works Cited

Index

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