Phenomenology and the Late Twentieth-Century American Long Poem

1     Coming To Terms With The American Long Poem- Introduction                                                                                1

·         Defining the American Long Poem

·         Reading the American Long Poem

·         Phenomenology and American Poetics

·         Charles Olson's Phenomenological Poetics

·         Acts of Poetic Extension

2     Finding A Word For Ourselves - George Oppen's Of Being Numerous                                                                     42

·         Letting The World Be Encountered: Oppen, Heidegger and Curiosity

·         The Thing Seen Each Day: Seeing and Actualness

·         We Live Among: Articulating Numerousness

3     A Huge Companionship - Robin Blaser's Image-Nations                                                                                            72

·         Interchange Is A Constant Folding: Seriality, Cosmology and 'The Fold'

·         In Company With The Messenger: A Phenomenology of Coterie

4    A Grand Essay On Perception - Lyn Hejinian & Leslie Scalapino's Sight                                                               106

·         Occurrence and Description: Envisioning Collaboration

·         The Sight/Site of Poetry: An Epistolary Seriality

·         Downcast Eyes: Ocularcentrism and Visionary Poetics

5     A Massive System of Urgency - Susan Howe's Pierce Arrow                                                                                        144      

·         Retrospective Excursions: History and The Margin

·         A Stumbling Phenomenology: Peirce and Husserl

·         Ethics is an Optics:  Howe and Levinas

6     Adumbration Bound Our Book - Nathaniel Mackey's Song of Andoumboulou                                                      181

·         Andoumboulouous Liminality: Hybrid Serialities

·         Improvisation is already an improvisation of improvisation: Improvised Form and Jazz Poetics

·         A Long Song Of Wandering: A Phenomenology of Song

·         The Work a Gigantic Memory Of Itself: Drafting, Gridding and Folding

·         Reading the line of "It": Deixis and Dispersal