Letters of Blood and Other Works in English

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Contents

Acknowledgements			xi
Contributors			xiii
Foreword: Göran Printz-Påhlson, a Life in and beyond Letters by Elinor Shaffer			xv
Inbetween: Locating Göran Printz-Påhlson by Robert Archambeau			xxi
‘The Overall Wandering of Mirroring Mind’: Some Notes on Göran Printz-Påhlson by Lars-Håkan Svensson			xxix

The Words of the Tribe: Primitivism, Reductionism, and Materialism in Modern Poetics			1
Part One		Linguistic Primitivism in Modernism and Romanticism	3
Part Two		Linguistic Reductionism in Poetry Criticism	19
Part Three		The Material Word: From Imagism to New Criticism to Intertextualism	31
Part Four		The Polity of Metaphor and the Purity of Diction	45

Other Prose			57
Part Five		Style, Irony, Metaphor, and Meaning	59
Part Six		Realism as Negation	67
Part Seven		Historical Drama and Historical Fiction: The Example of Strindberg	79
Part Eight		The Canon of Literary Modernism: A Note on Abstraction in the Poetry of Erik Lindegren	95
Part Nine		The Tradition of Contemporary Swedish Poetry	109
Part Ten		Kierkegaard the Poet	115
Part Eleven		Surface and Accident: John Ashbery	125
Part Twelve		The Voyages of John Matthias	133

Letters of Blood: Poems			139
	Letters of Blood		141
One			143
	My Interview with I.A. Richards		145
	Generation		148
	Televisiondreamroutines		150
	The Longest-Running Show on Television		151
	The Enormous Comics		152
	Poem Unnamed		155
	Botchuana		156
Two			157
	Aelius Lamia: Tankas for Robert Hass		159
	Odradek		161
	Turing Machine		162
	Broendal		163
	Two Prose Poems		164
	Sir Charles Babbage Returns to Trinity College		165
	Man-Made Monster Surreptitiously Regarding Idyllic Scene		165
	Joe Hill in Prison		166
	Remember the Rosenbergs		168
	When Beaumont and Tocqueville First Visited Sing-Sing		169
	Three Baroque Arias from Gradiva		170
Three			173
	Comedians		175
	Songs of Dock Boggs		177
	In the Style of Scott Skinner		178
	Acrobats on the Radio: Letter to Newcomb		179
	To John at the Summer Solstice, Before His Return		182
Four			187
	The Green-Ey’d Monster		189

Select Bibliography of Works by Göran Printz-Påhlson			219