..., whose anti-war poetry he felt had grown shrill and hectoring. At the same time, the poem attempts to draw out Brown's Dionysian, poetic potential. Duncan made Norman O. Brown an unwitting co-conspirator in this effort by attempting to reveal the naked poet beneath the academic robes. Much of the essay...

..., that is of interest. And ironically this neoliberalism is anti-political since it purports to place the poet beyond ideology. You see this Cold War criticism still in full force in mainstream newspapers and magazines, decades after the official end of the Cold War. (I think especially of Charles Simic in the New...

... of postmodern society. In 1968, the eighteen-year-old Bernstein read Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching and I Ching . The 1960s and the early 1970s are a dramatic and rebellious era in American history. During this period, the anti–Vietnam War movement, the women's liberation movement, and the civil rights movement...

.... “The secular Jewish culture that was wiped out in the Second World War,” he writes in his essay “Radical Jewish Culture / Secular Jewish Practice,” . . . stranded the correlative developments in America. . . . Imagine European poetry and philosophy by the descendants of Benjamin and Heine. But, to a large...

... and organization. By problematizing these terms without eschewing them entirely, Hunt and Martin avoid another pitfall of contemporary poetry studies: “overdichotomizing identitarian and anti-identitarian views” (Ramazani 2019 : xii). Indeed, many of the texts in Letters represent racial and ethnic identities...

..., British War Poetry,107,115,117,151,andThe Anti-Gallican, 14, 31–34, 48, 53, 54, 63–74, etc. Wordsworth’s ‘‘Anticipation: October, 1803’’ was printed in 1803, 1804, and 1807 with- out the subtitular date, which appeared in 1820, when the invasion scare...

... Waldo Emerson, can be seen as one of the later Bernstein's most prevalent themes (in my reading, the “Bricklayer's Arms” writes about that theme; and the slashing remark in “War Stories”—“War is an excuse for lots of bad antiwar poetry”—seems as if taken directly from a lecture/sermon of Emerson). 1...

... opposes its anti-intellectualism with a scholarly though unacademic critique mustering all the resources of contemporary culture. (Bernstein equally quotes Cavell and Seinfeld, Goffman and Batman, Karl and Groucho Marx.) And instead of a poetry of nostalgia and denial, Bernstein composes poems...

..., the Bolshevik revolution was translated as an originary struggle, as “the first genuine holy war” against imperial- ism. Muslim communism not only anticipated the expansion of the Soviet empire but also contributed to the architecture of a cognitive aesthetics of Muslim Soviet anti-imperial identity...

... wants to describe his Italian farm country as the anti-­imperial term within the empire, and yet he habitually describes the farmer as an emperor—as a war leader or strongman or colonizer, and all the more so in Dryden’s landmark translations from the 1690s. If a farmer’s plantings are growing...

..., writing in 1958 on the periphery of the Soviet Union, and Algerian poet and political leader Malek Haddad, writing a year later amid the Algerian War of Independence. Tracing the relationships between Global Souths, which included institutional and personal networks that persisted despite an often tense...

..., “A Postcard from the Volcano,” in Collected Poetry and Prose, 128–29. Filreis  /  The Stevens Wars  199 though they answer me like the risen sea.36 Where the early Stevensean Ashbery set out a viable poetic program and charmingly asserted his...

... reflected in the poetry and song lyrics, with themes taking pride in being part of the fact that Kaiser Wilhelm II’s theory of the “Yellow Peril” . . . (8:35–36) The Russo-Japanese­ War spurred on the rise of nationalism among the yellow race, with nationalists citing Wilhelm II’s...

.... Foertsch, Jacqueline. Enemies Within: The Cold War and the AIDS Crisis in Litera- ture, Film, and Culture. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2001. Franken, Christien. A.S. Byatt: Art, Authorship, Creativity. New York: Palgrave, 2001. Gaonkar, Dilip Parameshwar, ed. Alternative...

..., and the preservation of elite ownership, remained at the heart of Hawaiian politics through World War II. Not until after the war, with the concomitant rise of tourism and a service-sector based, urban Japanese, Chinese, and haole middle class, was the landed Republican oligarchy re- placed by a Democratic anti...

... of prodemocracy and anti-fascist dissent. Mufti@ucla.edu Copyright ©2023 by Duke University Press 2023 Hindutva sovereignty fascism dissent poetry The last three to four decades have seen a marked increase in a whole host of social, political, and cultural tendencies in India...

... shattered the specter of the confessional tradition over American poetry.9 “If the work of a poet is thought of as an excuse for his life, his life must be thought of as an alibi for his work. In this respect, the example of Merrill paradigmatically presents a model of poetry as ‘anti-­confessional...

...—but clearly such an approach might have yielded an altogether different anthology. In fact, the inclusion of topical poems—such as Sarah Cleghorn’s quatrain on child labor, the World War I poems by Edmund Wil- son, Robert Hillyer, and John Peale Bishop, or Witter Bynner’s poem on racial discrimination...

... that poetry was in any sense ‘‘metaphorical As he writes, ‘‘The poem has an anti-metaphorical character, even where it is most figurative’’ [Das Gedicht hat, glaube ich, noch da wo es am bildhaftesten ist, einen anti- metaphorischen Charakter].39 The experiences/events Celan has in mind and the words he...

... and highly speculative. Recognizable ethnic speaking subjects fracture into seemingly disconnected textual fragments. What remains in the poetry increasingly resembles an archipelago of historical silences and traumatic ruptures punctuated by oblique references to colonization, displacement, and war...