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Discrepant Engagement: Dissonance, Cross-Culturality and Experimental Writing »

Authors: Nathaniel Mackey, Ross Posnock (Editor), Albert Gelpi
ISBN-13: 9780521444538, ISBN-10: 0521444535
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: September 1993
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Nathaniel Mackey

Book Synopsis

Discrepant Engagement addresses work by a number of authors not normally grouped under a common rubric - black writers from the United States and the Caribbean and the so-called Black Mountain poets.

	Acknowledgments
1	Introduction: And All the Birds Sing Bass	1
2	The Changing Same: Black Music in the Poetry of Amiri Baraka	22
3	To Define An Ultimate Dimness: The Poetry of Clarence Major	49
4	The World-Poem in Microcosm: Robert Duncan's "The Continent"	66
5	Uroboros: Robert Duncan's Dante and A Seventeenth Century Suite	88
6	Robert Creeley's The Gold Diggers: Projective Prose	104
7	That Words Can Be on the Page: The Graphic Aspect of Charles Olson's Poetics	121
8	New Series I (Folk Series): Edward Kamau Brathwaite's New World Trilogy	139
9	Limbo, Dislocation, Phantom Limb: Wilson Harris and the Caribbean Occasion	162
10	Poseidon (Dub Version)	180
11	The Unruly Pivot: Wilson Harris's The Eye of the Scarecrow	191
12	The Imagination of Justice: Wilson Harris's Ascent to Omai	214
13	Sound and Sentiment, Sound and Symbol	231
14	On Edge	260
15	Other: From Noun to Verb	265
	Notes	287
	Index	305