Michel Delville is a writer and musician living in Liège, Belgium. He is the author of several books including J.G. Ballard and The American Prose Poem, which won the 1998 SAMLA Studies Book Award. He teaches English and American literatures, as well as comparative literatures, at the University of Liège, where he directs the Interdisciplinary Center for Applied Poetics. He has been playing and composing music since the mid-eighties. His most recently formed rock-jazz band, the Wrong Object, plays the music of Frank Zappa and a few tunes of their own (http://www.wrongobject.be.tf).Andrew Norris is a writer and musician resident in Brussels. He has worked with a number of groups as vocalist and guitarist and has a special weakness for the interface between avant garde poetry and the blues. He teaches English and translation studies in Brussels and is currently working on a book on post-epiphanic style in James Joyce.

• IntroductionChapter OneBreaking You DownChapter TwoWe are the Mothers and This is What We Sound Like: On the Uses and Abuses of Degenerate Art Chapter ThreeBirth Trauma and the Blues-Gothic: The Body at the CrossroadsChapter FourLaughter Inside and Out: The Subject-Object on the Edge Chapter FiveUnprincipled PleasureNotesBibliographyIndex

Michel Delville is a writer and musician living in Liège, Belgium. He is the author of several books including J.G. Ballard and The American Prose Poem, which won the 1998 SAMLA Studies Book Award. He teaches English and American literatures, as well as comparative literatures, at the University of Liège, where he directs the Interdisciplinary Center for Applied Poetics. He has been playing and composing music since the mid-eighties. His most recently formed rock-jazz band, the Wrong Object, plays the music of Frank Zappa and a few tunes of their own (http://www.wrongobject.be.tf).Andrew Norris is a writer and musician resident in Brussels. He has worked with a number of groups as vocalist and guitarist and has a special weakness for the interface between avant garde poetry and the blues. He teaches English and translation studies in Brussels and is currently working on a book on post-epiphanic style in James Joyce.

• IntroductionChapter OneBreaking You DownChapter TwoWe are the Mothers and This is What We Sound Like: On the Uses and Abuses of Degenerate Art Chapter ThreeBirth Trauma and the Blues-Gothic: The Body at the CrossroadsChapter FourLaughter Inside and Out: The Subject-Object on the Edge Chapter FiveUnprincipled PleasureNotesBibliographyIndex

Michel Delville is a writer and musician living in Liège, Belgium. He is the author of several books including J.G. Ballard and The American Prose Poem, which won the 1998 SAMLA Studies Book Award. He teaches English and American literatures, as well as comparative literatures, at the University of Liège, where he directs the Interdisciplinary Center for Applied Poetics. He has been playing and composing music since the mid-eighties. His most recently formed rock-jazz band, the Wrong Object, plays the music of Frank Zappa and a few tunes of their own (http://www.wrongobject.be.tf).Andrew Norris is a writer and musician resident in Brussels. He has worked with a number of groups as vocalist and guitarist and has a special weakness for the interface between avant garde poetry and the blues. He teaches English and translation studies in Brussels and is currently working on a book on post-epiphanic style in James Joyce.

• IntroductionChapter OneBreaking You DownChapter TwoWe are the Mothers and This is What We Sound Like: On the Uses and Abuses of Degenerate Art Chapter ThreeBirth Trauma and the Blues-Gothic: The Body at the CrossroadsChapter FourLaughter Inside and Out: The Subject-Object on the Edge Chapter FiveUnprincipled PleasureNotesBibliographyIndex