"In this very coherent collection of essays, Retallack goes a long
way toward constructing meaning out of the restlessness and anxiety
that characterize postmodern art. The result is a strong
affirmation of the imagination--and, in a way, an affirmation of
affirmation itself. The book is powerful and beautiful."--Lyn
Hejinian
"Joan Retallack is a thinker of refreshing clarity, frankness
and drive, with a wily, engaged intelligence. This remarkable book
of her speculative essays is at once a dynamic conceptual art work
and an artistically subtle probing of concepts. Retallack has
produced a witty, penetrating work that raises the stakes of
poetics with her commitment to a utopian ethics of lucidity,
attentiveness, responsibility, and hope."--Rachel Blau DuPlessis,
author of "Drafts 1-38, "Toll and "The Pink Guitar: Writing as
Feminist Practice
"Joan Retallack shows not why but how poetry matters in these
fractal provocations in, around, and through Cage, Stein, Waldrop,
Wittgenstein, Winnicott, and a large supporting cast that
potentially includes you. Retallack's "newsense" turns knowledge
into "nowledge, weaving words into thought's improbable
possibilities."--Charles Bernstein, author of "Republics of
Reality: 1975-1995
"Joan Retallack is our supreme theoretician of poetic
contingency. With great patience, profundity, and good humor, she
lays out a 'poetics of the swerve, ' a 'constructive preoccupation
with what are unpredictable forms of change.' Whether writing about
Gertrude Stein or John Cage, or feeling her way to a more adequate
'feminism'--a feminism that refuses to close off the possibilities
of chance and change--Retallack 'essays' toward a 'poethics' that,
inWittgensteinian terms, 'leaves everything as it is' so as to
dis-cover what it might be. "--Marjorie Perloff, author of
"Wittgenstein's Ladder
"Retallack has a deliciously complicated sense of the world,
which combines with superb tact and an unpretentious but imposing
sense that she is making a poethical wager at every moment in the
writing, especially in her sense of the tension between memory and
'productive conjecture'.This is one of the most cogent and
capacious rationales for experimental poetics that I have
read."--Charles Altieri, author of "Painterly Abstraction in
Modernist American Poetry and Postmodernisms Now
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