Cover -- Contents -- 1 Arresting Poetry: Kitsch, Totality, Expression -- Unpopular Pop -- Missing Verses -- Bogus -- Twice Made -- Mass Ornament -- 2 Poetic Diction and the Substance of Kitsch -- Dreams, Mottos, Gossip -- Chatter and Virtuosity -- Phraseology -- Morbid Animation -- 3 Miscreant: Dialectics and the Persistence of the Commonplace -- Doppelgänger -- Synthetic Vernaculars -- Poetry vs. Literature -- Commonplace -- Lyric Fatality -- Thieves' Latin -- 4 The Spurious Progeny of Bare Nature -- Balladry and the Burden of Popular Culture -- Exploded Beings and After-Poets -- Live Burial -- 5 Illiterature -- Refrain -- Lullaby Logic -- The Cult of Simplicity -- Pets, Trifles, Toys -- Gothic Verse and Melodrama -- Silver Proxy -- 6 Queer Idylls: Imposture, Inversion, Unknowing -- Topologies of Privacy -- Reliques -- Poetaster -- Kitsch, Camp, and Homo-fascism -- 1800 Words -- Poison -- 7 Kitsching the Cantos: Totality, Fascism, and les Paradis Artificiels -- Vortex and Cream Puff -- Contraband -- The Kitsch of Apocalypse -- Epic, Rhapsody, Seizure -- Bad Infinity -- Ethnofascist Souvenirs -- 8 Junk: A Shopper's Guide to Poetic Language (and the New York School) -- Thermofax: Warhol, Malanga, and the Art of Suicide -- Dada Kitsch -- After After-Poets: Collaboration and Collective Writing -- Coterie and Melodrama -- The Metaphysics of Kitsch -- 9 Inventing Clichés: The Lost Legacy of Baudelaire's Muddy Halo -- Plastic Poetry -- Liar, Liar -- Afterword -- In the Poisonous Candy Factory -- Counterfeit Capital -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""1 Arresting Poetry: Kitsch, Totality, Expression""; ""Unpopular Pop""; ""Missing Verses""; ""Bogus""; ""Twice Made""; ""Mass Ornament""; ""2 Poetic Diction and the Substance of Kitsch""; ""Dreams, Mottos, Gossip""; ""Chatter and Virtuosity""; ""Phraseology""; ""Morbid Animation""; ""3 Miscreant: Dialectics and the Persistence of the Commonplace""; ""Doppelg�nger""; ""Synthetic Vernaculars""; ""Poetry vs. Literature""; ""Commonplace""; ""Lyric Fatality""; ""Thieves� Latin""; ""4 The Spurious Progeny of Bare Nature""; ""Balladry and the Burden of Popular Culture""
""Exploded Beings and After-Poets""""Live Burial""; ""5 Illiterature""; ""Refrain""; ""Lullaby Logic""; ""The Cult of Simplicity""; ""Pets, Trifles, Toys""; ""Gothic Verse and Melodrama""; ""Silver Proxy""; ""6 Queer Idylls: Imposture, Inversion, Unknowing""; ""Topologies of Privacy""; ""Reliques""; ""Poetaster""; ""Kitsch, Camp, and Homo-fascism""; ""1800 Words""; ""Poison""; ""7 Kitsching the Cantos: Totality, Fascism, and les Paradis Artificiels""; ""Vortex and Cream Puff""; ""Contraband""; ""The Kitsch of Apocalypse""; ""Epic, Rhapsody, Seizure""; ""Bad Infinity""
