Poetry at Stake

Carrie Noland is Associate Professor of French at the University of California, Irvine.

"Examining theoreticians ... and adding an ingenious interpretive analyses of her own, Noland illustrates the extent to which and how the character of various poets, performers, and even a dress designer's productions mediate a dialectic between artist and public."--Choice "Carrie Noland provides a powerful view of the dynamic connection between lyric poetry and technology... It is invigorating to read such a well documented and providential analysis."--Susan F. Crampton, French Review "Excellent in its informative reading of each artist in question, the chapters are independent, richly documented studies of the creative self and its embrace of a particular technology or commercial development."--Maria L. Assad, Nineteenth-Century French Studies

• Acknowledgments ix Abbreviations xi Introduction 3 One Traffic in the Unknown: Rimbaud's Interpretive Communities, Market Competition, and the Poetics of Voyance 16 Two A Poetry of Attractions: Rimbaud's Machine and the Theatrical Feerie 37 Three Confessing Philosophy: Negative Dialectics and/as Lyric Poetry 60 Four Blaise Cendrars and the Heterogeneous Discourses of the Lyric Subject 89 Five High Decoration: Sonia Delaunay, Blaise Cendrars, and the Poem as Fashion Design 114 Six Messages personnels: Radio, Cryptography, and the Resistance Poetry of Rene Char 141 Seven Rimbaud and Patti Smith: The Discoveries of Modern Poetry and the Popular Music Industry 163 Eight Laurie Anderson: Confessions of a Cyborg 185 Coda 213 Notes 219 General Index 255 Index of Principal Primary Sources Cited 263