Attention Equals Life: The Pursuit of the Everyday in Contemporary Poetry and Culture

Synopsis

Attention Equals Life Examines Why A Quest To Pay Attention To Daily Life Has Increasingly Become A Central Feature Of Both Contemporary American Poetry And The Wider Culture Of Which It Is A Part -- Introduction: The Poetics Of Everyday Life Since 1945 -- The Crisis Of Attention, Everyday Life Theory, And Contemporary Poetry -- Each Day So Different, Yet Still Alike: James Schuyler And The Elusive Everyday -- The Tiny Invites Attention: A. R. Ammons's Quotidian Muse -- Writing The Maternal Everyday: Bernadette Mayer And Her Daughters (hoa Nguyen, Susan Holbrook, Laynie Browne) -- There Is No Content Here, Only Dailiness: Poetry As Critique Of Everyday Life In Ron Silliman's Ketjak -- Everyday Life Projects In Contemporary Poetry And Culture (kenneth Goldsmith, Claudia Rankine, Brenda Coultas, Harryette Mullen) -- Conclusion: Claudia Rankine's Citizen And Beyond. Andrew Epstein. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.