In the arena of poetry and poetics over the past century, no idea has been more alive and contentious than the idea of form, and no aspect of form has more emphatically sponsored this marked formal concern than the line. But what, exactly, is the...
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In the arena of poetry and poetics over the past century, no idea has been more alive and contentious than the idea of form, and no aspect of form has more emphatically sponsored this marked formal concern than the line. But what, exactly, is the line? Emily Rosko and Anton Vander Zee’s anthology gives seventy original answers that lead us deeper into the world of poetry, but also far out into the world at large: its people, its politics, its ecology. The authors included here, emerging and established alike, write from a range of perspectives, in terms of both aesthetics and identity
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Table of Contents; Acknowledgments and Permissions; Introduction; On the Line; Reading Lines Linear How to Mean; Who Is Flying This Plane? The Prose Poem and the Life of the Line; Three Takes on the Line; 3/4/5; Two Lines; The Summons of the Line; Secret Life; A Momentary Play against Concision; Notes on the Point de Capital; Forever Amber; Remarks / on the Foundation / of the Line:A Personal History; A Line Apart; Furthermore: Some Lines about the Poetic Line; The Graphic Line; Shore Lines; Scotch Tape Receptacle Scissors and a Poem; In Praise of Line-Breaks
Grails and Legacies: Thoughts on the LineOnly the Broken Breathe; As a Means, Shaped by Its Container; A Line Is a Hesitation, Not a World; Four Allegories of the Line; The Hyperextension of the Line; Slash; The Line as Fetish and Fascist Reliquary; A Personal Response to the Line; The Uncompressing of the Line; Line of Inquiry; Out of Joint: An Ir/reverent Meditation on the Line; The Virtues of Verse; Case on the Line; Lines and Spaces; Lineation in the Land of the New Sentence; The Invisible Tether: Some Thoughts on the Line
"What I cannot say is / Is at the vertex":Some Working Notes on Failure and the LineWhere It Breaks: Drama, Silence, Speed,and Accrual; This Is Just to Say That So Much Depends Upon; The Line; "And then a Plank in Reason, Broke"; The Free-Verse Line: Rhythm and Voice; Tiny Étude on the Poetic Line; Dickinson's Dashes and the Free-Verse Line; Minding the Gaps; Line / Break; Rhyme and the Line; Enter the Line; Healing and the Poetic Line; Some of What's in a Line; Harold and the Purple Crayon:The Line as a Generative Force; On the Origin and Practice of a "Signature" Line
Lines as CounterpointsTwo Takes on Poetic Meaning and the Line; The Line Is the Leaf; Writing Against Temperament: The Line; Some Thoughts on the Integrity of the Single Line in Poetry; Comma Splice and Jump-Cut: On the Line; Clarity and Mystery: Some Thoughts on the Line; Captivated by Syllabics; Croon: A Brief on the Line; Breadthless Length; A Few Lines on the Line; Life / Line: (Freaked); A Few Attempts at Threading a Needle; A Broken Thing?; The Thin Line; The Broken Line: Excess and Incommensurability; Line: So We Go Away; Some Notes on the Poetic Line inG. C. Waldrep and Lily Brown
The Only ToolThe Economy of the Line; Contributor Notes; Index;
