Artifice & Indeterminacy

"A heady anthology of superb critical essays." -Contemporary Literature "An admirable and indeed successful attempt to clear the opaque waters of contemporary poetics. . . . timely, perspicacious, and fascinating. The essays collected here should inform readings of a far wider range of texts than the introductionrs"s emphasis on the avant-garde so modestly suggests, and than our historical tendency to taxonomies of poetry would usually permit." -American Studies "Beach usefully brings together a number of influential essays and excerpts from larger studies by Language poets and by a growing number of university-based critics and scholars interested in Language-oriented work." -Times Literary Supplement Contributions by: Charles Bernstein, Bob Perelman, Barrett Watten, Michael Davidson, Marjorie Perloff, David Antin, Leslie Scalapino, Lyn Hejinian, John Taggart, James Sherry, Ron Silliman, Steve McCaffrey, Hank Lazer, Nathaniel Mackey, Maria Damon, Rae Armantrout, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Susan Howe