Jessica Lewis Luck

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Jessica Lewis Luck is Associate Professor of English at California State University San Bernardino. She has published essays on Larry Eigner, Harryette Mullen, and Sylvia Plath, among others. Her current book project on “the poetics of cognition” uses cognitive theories of the embodied mind to explore the ways that experimental poems think and the ways we think through them.

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Isn’t the Pedagogical Always Avant-Garde?

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Isn’t the avant-garde always pedagogical, she said, I mean altruistically bugbearish —Lyn Hejinian, My Life [1] I’d like to begin this essay with an experimental “deformance” of a literary text, reversing Lyn Hejinian’s terms in the epigraph above to ask “Isn’t the pedagogical always avant-garde?” By posing this question, I certainly don’t mean to imply that all pedagogy is inherently innovative. I agree with Joan Retallack and Juliana Spahr who find that “[c]ontemporary literary pedagogy is...

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poetry avant-garde pedagogy