...Bob Perelman This essay reviews the publication of Larry Eigner’s selected poems and provides an introduction to Eigner (1927–96) and his place in US poetry. It gives an account of his life, describing his lifelong disability from cerebral palsy and the trajectory of his poetic career, which ended...

...: Revolutionary Poetics in the Caucasus . Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press . Foucault Michel . 1970 . The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences . New York : Random House . Gandhi Leela . 2006 . Affective Communities: Anticolonial Thought, Fin-de-siècle Radicalism...

... “postsocialist” here marks modes of personhood and locution that are perverse with respect to the reproductive aims of the post-1989 order. Deriving from the socialist past but not reducible either to its official doctrines or to its official dissident cultures, these modes persist in the present and disable...

... poetics and politics of the ontologies of alterity is not indifferent to politics. Spanos thus unearths the “overlapping territories and intertwined histories” (as Edward Said put it) that constitute the polis in the histories of colonialism, imperialism, and neoimperialism, the latter being his focus in...

... the digital archive; Marjorie Perloff illuminates Susan Howe’s The Midnight; Jonathan Skinner writes on ecopoetics; Joyelle McSweeney takes on the poetics of disability, with special reference to Hannah Weiner; Al Filreis sur- veys Wallace Stevens’s post-’75 shadows; Jim Rosenberg...

... Black poetic tradition that, however contentious and revisionary, has never been divorced from public poetry readings and a wider Black read- ing audience of engaged citizens. Therefore, let me begin with Lorenzo Thomas’s descriptive yet polemical title. Afrocentric modernism,anoxy- moron to some...

...: Between Globalization and Fragmentation. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2002. Bök, Christian. ‘‘Pataphysics The Poetics of an Imaginary Science. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 2002...

... lyric poetry and will spend the 2008–2009 academic year on a teaching exchange at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany. Sarah Juliet Lauro is a PhD candidate at the University of California, Davis. She has written on the poetic transcription of the disabled body onto the page and on...

... plays a central role in his poetry and prose. But rather than taking secularization as a universal yardstick to measure success or failure of the project of Enlight- enment and historical progress, his poetic project reflects the problem of secularism in a critical fashion. Heine resists the...

... life, half virtual, half-­flesh,” in Flynn’s “Letter to Friends” (2011: 40), it is precisely our enthrallment with connectivity and the endless circula- tion of information that disables meaningful forms of exchange. The poem opens in a flooded traffic tunnel, a pass turned “impasse” (35). One of...

... enabling him to put into admittedly still approximate terms the terrible experience from which the writing arises.2 The experi- ence of this unavoidably present pattern in his life is functionally disabling in the extreme, from the commonsense point of view, and feels scarcely “providential,” even...

... suspension of meaning that allows the poem to become (determinately) about its own reading. See Marjorie Perloff, The Poetics of Indeterminacy: Rimbaud to Cage (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1981). . Ashbery on Roussel: “Nouvelles Impressions is . . . an anomaly: a narrative poem...

... problem. The Right to Translation: Deconstructive Pedagogy in Comparative Literature, 1979/2009 Emily Apter This short book offers a theory of poetry by way of a description of poetic influence, or the...

... unexpected. Not unlike Walt Whitman, whose long lines and eccentric, vernacular poetic enjambment derived from his devotion to opera, Armstrong brought care- fully crafted harmonic and figural structures to bear upon exuberant lyrical execution and eruptive melodic improvisation. The outcome...

... Joseph . 2002 . Poetry and the Public: The Social Form of Modern U.S. Poetics . Middletown, CT : Wesleyan University Press . Hill Frank Ernest . 1934 . The Westward Star . New York : John Day . Hillyer Robert . 1937 . A Letter to Robert Frost and Others . New York : Alfred...

... thinking but calls, precisely in its haunting, for the rethinking of (hegemonic) thinking itself. It is 11. Martin Heidegger, ‘‘Language in the Poem: A Discussion of Georg Trakl’s Poetic Work trans. Peter D. Hertz, in On the Way to Language (New York: Harper and Row, 1971), 177– 79. 12. Jacques...

... issues, so we started to look for a computer game we could modify” (Crace 2002). See also Stahl 2010 (93). 9. There is also a clear connection to the emotional poetics of Hollywood war films. They have long made use of a varied series of pathos scenes or pathos formulas in order to manage the...

... out of art as purely bounded within the aesthetic, we thus lend to the poiētic an overarch- ing scope, relevant to the broadest range of human creativity, which opens the way for a better understanding of the interwoven condition of the poetic with the political beyond the traditional (and often...

... did and do—but isn’t his work all about, actually, secularization? Well, Hillis Miller’s famous and wonderful review in Diacritics of Abrams’s Natural Supernaturalism (1971) lays out this argument.11 Miller’s 10. See Racheal Forlow, “Erotic Poetics: Love and the Function of US...

... easily disabled without recourse: the weak, the racially marked, and the socially oppressed. 1. However, if you are black, sometimes even patriotism cannot prohibit the police theft. Just last year, Lewis Cain, a disabled Vietnam veteran in Nashville, lost his car because police had an arrest warrant for...