CFP: Poetics of Ted Berrigan (2/5/07; collection)

TED BERRIGAN. Papers are solicited for a collection of essays tentatively
titled "Just like Me!": The Poetics of Ted Berrigan. The collection's
intent is to weigh Berrigan's poetic practice--its mode, pith, and
energy--including his lineage, his brazen democratic pelt, his chattiness,
his writings' superfluid occasions, and the immediacy and endlessness of
his "heartistic" transmission.

In part, the 2005 publication of _The Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan_
makes this critical assessment of his poetics timely, since most of his
production is now readily available. Additionally, this proposed
collection of essays emerges out of a concern that, aside from the role
Berrigan played through his personality and vision's force as
gravitational center for New York poets, direct attention to his method
has been relatively scant. At the same time, the editors acknowledge that
essays addressing Berrigan's participation and influence in an
understanding of a New York school are fundamentally valuable but ask that
essays dealing with such a topic use Berrigan's poetics as a focus.

Send manuscripts (following MLA style, and in Microsoft Word or rich-text
format) and 1-page vitae by 5 February 2007 to both editors, Peter Baker
(Pbaker_at_town.edu) and Sam Truitt (samtruitt_at_yahoo.com). Queries are
encouraged, as are abstracts, though final essays will be due in February.

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