Contemporary poetry meets modern theory Book

	Acknowledgements
	Introduction
1	Points of Departure: Deconstruction and John Ashbery's 'Sortes Vergilianae'	5
2	'Sortes Vergilianae'	19
3	Charles Bernstein's 'The Simply'	34
4	Toward Gay Reading: Robert Gluck's 'Reader'	40
5	Tony Harrison's Languages	53
6	Ana-; or Postmodernism, Landscape, Seamus Heaney	68
7	On Ice: Julia Kristeva, Susan Howe and avant garde poetics	81
8	Poetry and Motion: Madonna and Public Enemy	96
9	Signs are Taken for Wonders: On Steve McCaffery's 'Lag'	108
10	Difference Spreading: From Gertrude Stein to L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry	116
11	Pat Parker: Feminism in postmodernity	128
12	Nothing but Mortality: Prynne and Celan	139
13	Postmodern Postpoetry: Tom Raworth's tottering state	153
14	'In the Wake of Home': Adrienne Rich's politics and poetics of location	166
15	Adrienne Rich: Consciousness raising as poetic method	177
16	'. . . if it's a statistic, it's not a woman': a look at 'serious lessons learned' by Ntozake Shange	195
	Afterword	208
	Notes on Contributors	211