...J. T. Barbarese Writers and poets who turn to translation may do so more out of self-interest than a sense of indebtedness, and the emphasis on translation as playful homage, among the permanent debts to modernism, along with the gradual disappearance of the institutional study of foreign languages...

...J. T. Barbarese From the outset, Wallace Stevens’s reputation has proven a vexation for even supportive critics. While the New Critics wanted his work to look more high modernist than late Romantic, “Romantic-modernists,” resenting even the possibility that Romanticism was passé, argued...

... also serves on the boundary 2 editorial collective and chairs the Advisory Committee for the Success- ful Societies Program of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. His latest book is Impure Worlds: The Institution of Literature in the Age of the Novel (2010). J. T. Barbarese’s most...

..., and science fiction. J. T. Barbarese’s latest book of poems is Sweet Spot (2012). His poetry has appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, the New Yorker, Boulevard, and the Times Literary Supplement; and his fiction has appeared in Boulevard, NAR, and, prior to becoming its editor in 2008...