Argotist Ebooks

Articulating Space: Short Essays on Poetry by Jessica Smith

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Free ebook of essays from the Argotist by Jessica Smith.

Composed between 2000 and 2006, these short essays on poetry and poetics straddle the genres of traditional academic essay and manifesto. They include analyses of L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetics (Andrews, Bernstein, DuPlessis, Hejinian, Howe, McCaffery, and Silliman) and poetry by Modernists Eliot, Stein, and Zukofsky; 19th Century poets Browning, Rossetti and Shelley; and contemporary poets Cecilia Vicuña and Christian Bök. Spinning 200 years of poetry and philosophy, Smith weaves a theory of the concomitance of space and time in language.

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Paradigm of the Tinctures

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The new ebook from Argotist Ebooks is “Paradigm of the Tinctures” by Steve McCaffery and Alan Halsey. This revised and expanded edition of “Paradigm of the Tinctures” by Steve McCaffery and Alan Halsey revisits the classic humanist idea of the Sister Arts where poetry is understood to be a speaking picture and a picture a silent poem. The revisitation, however, is bluntly revisionary and the result is a fresh text-graphic dialogue. Available as a free ebook here.