Notational Experiments in North American Long Poems, 1961-2011

1. The Notational Template: Langston Hughes’ Ask Your Mama: 12 Moods for Jazz and the “Hesitation Blues”
A. J. Carruthers

2. Long Poem Including Music: Reading the Score in Armand Schwerner’s “Tablet XII”
A. J. Carruthers

3. “No tation”: The Scored Allegorical in BpNichol’s The Martyrology

A. J. Carruthers

4. Joan Retallack’s Errata 5uite and Register Reading
A. J. Carruthers

5. “Music for Posterity”: Afterlives for the Score in Anne Waldman’s The Iovis Trilogy

A. J. Carruthers

Keywords: Literature, Poetry and Poetics, Twentieth-Century Literature, North American Literature