Attention equals life: the pursuit of the everyday in contemporary poetry and culture

Introduction: the poetics of everyday life since 1945

The crisis of attention, everyday life theory, and contemporary poetry

"Each day so different, yet still alike": James Schuyler and the elusive everyday

"Tthe tiny invites attention": A.R. Ammons's quotidian muse

Writing the maternal everyday: Bernadette Mayer and her "daughters" (Hoa Nguyen, Susan Holbrook, Laynie Browne)

"There is no content here, only dailiness": poetry as critique of everyday life in Ron Silliman's Ketjak

Everyday life projects in contemporary poetry and culture (Kenneth Goldsmith, Claudia Rankine, Brenda Coultas, Harryette Mullen)

Conclusion: Claudia Rankine's citizen and beyond.