The Darkness of the Present : Poetics, Anachronism, and the Anomaly

Cacophony, Abstraction, And Potentiality: The Fate Of The Dada Sound Poem -- Corrosive Poetics: The Relief Composition Of Ronald Johnson's Radios -- Interpretation And The Limit Text: An Approach To Jackson Maclow's Words And Ends From Ez -- Transcoherence And Deletion: The Mesostic Writings Of John Cage -- A Chapter Of Accidents: Disfiguration And The Marbled Page In Laurence Sterne's The Life And Opinions Of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman -- From Muse To Mousepad: Informatics And The Avant-garde -- Parapoetics And The Architectural Leap -- To Lose One's Way (for Snails And Nomads): The Radical Labyrinths Of Constant And Arakawa And Gins -- Difficult Harmony: The Picturesque Detail In Gilpin, Price, And Clark Coolidge's Space -- The 'pataphysics Of Auschwitz -- The Instrumental Nightingale: Some Counter-musical Inflections In Poetry From Gray To Celan. Steve Mccaffery. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.