Emphasizing the diversity of twentieth-century collage practices, Rona Cran's book explores
the role that it played in the work of Joseph Cornell, William Burroughs, Frank O'Hara, and …

“Language can be this incredibly forceful material—there's something about it where if you
can strip away its history, get to the materiality of it, it can rip into you like claws”(Hill in …

" Some of the most innovative works of poetry and art in the postwar period (1945-1970)
engaged in a'contextual practice'-both a way of making art and a new relationship between …

Contemporary American poetry can often seem intimidating and daunting in its variety and
complexity. This engaging and accessible book provides the first comprehensive …

Collage and Literature analyzes how and why the history of literature and art changed
irrevocably beginning in the early years of the twentieth century, and what that change has …

This essay suggests that during the 1960s William Burroughs was as much an avant-garde
European artist as he was an American novelist. It argues that the nature of his cut-up novels …

This article examines the adaptation of poems in recent biographical films which take poets
as their subjects. Examples include The Edge of Love (Dir. John Maybury, UK, 2008) which …

After the second World War, the term “technology” came to signify both the anxieties of
possible annihilation in a rapidly changing world and the exhilaration of accelerating cultural …

What is poetic cinema? The term denotes a relation to the literary genre of poetry, but that
definition has changed through the centuries. The Greek term poesis could be applied to …

It is hard to imagine a more infelicitous performative than the statement 'I write this book'. The
speech-writing grammar and tense are all wrong. The book of writing comes into print and …