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Library of Congress Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
Names: Hix, H. L., author.
Title: Demonstrategy : poetry, for and against / H.L. Hix.
Description: First edition. | Wilkes-Barre, PA : Etruscan Press, 2019. | Includes bibliographical references.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018015477 | ISBN 9780999753415
Subjects: LCSH: Poetics.
Classification: LCC PN1042 .H52 2019 | DDC 808.1--dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018015477
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Table of Contents
Article 1: Make another world, make this world otherwise.
Article 2: Double stance, double vision.
Article 3: Think making, make thinking.
3.1: Poetry Against Philosophy
3.2: Poetry Against Fragmentation
Article 4: See what is at stake, change what is at stake.
4.1: Poetry For Reparation
4.2: Poetry For Preparation
Article 5: Everything that descends must diverge.
5.1: Poetry Against Patriarchy
5.2: Poetry Against Tyranny
Article 6: Ask me once, stranger you; ask me twice, stranger me.
6.1: Poetry For Xenophilia
6.2: Poetry For Change
Article 7: No secrets means no exceptions.
7.1: Poetry Against Expectations
7.2: Poetry Against Exceptionalism
Article 8: Tell me someone I don’t already know.
8.1: Poetry For Discovery
8.2: Poetry For Self-Knowledge
Article 9: One word changes, one word changes everything.
9.1: Poetry Against Correspondence
9.2: Poetry Against Fungibility
Article 10: Not yet as it should be, no longer as it was.
10.1: Poetry For Dissent
10.2: Poetry For Hybridity
Acknowledgments
Before this inquiry was one, it was many.
Of those several inquiries, various were tentatively voiced, some at conferences (the “Poetic Ecologies” conference in Brussels, the national conferences of ASLE, MLA, and AWP, the conference of the Estonian Association of Comparative Literature, the “Hybrids, Monsters, and Other Aliens” conference in London, the “Under Western Skies” conference in Calgary, the “Flow and Fracture: the Ecopoetic Avant Garde” conference in Brussels, and the “Wit, Scholar, Mentor” conference in Austin), some as lectures (at Virginia Wesleyan University, Chulalongkorn University, the Université Libre de Bruxelles, and the University of Kansas). I thank my gracious hosts and interlocutors at those venues, especially Franca Bellarsi, Chad Weidner, Josh Weinstein, Lucile Desblache, Robert Boschman, Surapeepan Chatraporn, Jüri Talvet, Katre Talviste, and Gene Fendt. A few of these inquiries enjoyed first lives as lectures at Fairleigh Dickinson University’s low-residency MFA program, and I am grateful to the members of that vibrant community.
Also, versions of individual inquiries were provisionally ventured in print, in these vehicles: At Length (6.1); Comparative Critical Studies (10.2); Interlitteraria (1.1, 5.1, 10.1); Likestarlings (1.2); Making Poems, ed. Todd F. Davis and Erin Murphy (8.1); On Rhyme, ed. David Caplan (9.1); Poems and Their Making, ed. Philip Brady (8.2); Until Everything Is Continuous Again, ed. Jonathan Weinert and Kevin Prufer (4.2); Voltage Poetry (6.2); AWP Writers Chronicle (2.1, 7.1); and The Yale Review (3.2). I am indebted to the editors of those publications for their intellectual nurture.
I am grateful yet again for Phil Brady’s sage editorial counsel.
Demonstrategy
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