...Colin Dayan Through the route of the dog, I examine the limits and reach of what I call Williams's “poetic ethnography.” In disavowing any cherished humanism, William Carlos Williams writes his long poem Paterson . In acknowledging the obscenity of his twentieth-century world and a brutal history...

...” is enough. Your property is guilty until you prove it innocent. With civil forfeiture, owners do not have to be charged with a crime, let alone be convicted, to lose homes, cars, cash—or dogs. This effort to sharpen our understanding of dispossession is preeminently a legal project. It takes its meaning...

... without completing a “story” as such. That is, it can do so without trying to resolve historical disputes that have dogged the career of Indian modernity (e.g., how exactly can caste be squared with scientific and democratic tempers?). The image of a “shining” Hindu normative metropolitanism...

..., and Robert Christgau Lindsay Waters All knowledge, the totality of all questions and all answers, is con- tained in the dog. —Franz...

... was a radiation beam that clicked on and off like a clock, with a friend underneath it. A woman came up the hall with a dog to comfort us. The dog was old and suffering. One woman stroked its fur. Another woman asked that the dog not come closer. Then she reached out and touched it; then she said “that’s...

..., date, place, and number . . . inscribed on the film,” it nonetheless retains the specific who , what , when , and where of the thing depicted. Vertov offers an example of what he means: “A dog running by on the street is a visible fact, even if we don't catch up with it to read what's on its...

... to a foreign country in exchange for minerals and resources we cannot access in Chicago Because the white mother knows she cannot say she is there to find her children, she tells the beige authoritative body that she is looking for her dog amid the dead animals in the hopes that they might be alive...

... Poetry and Poetics (2012). Colin Dayan is professor of English, Robert Penn Warren Professor in the Humani- ties, and professor of law at Vanderbilt University. Her books include The Law Is a White Dog; Haiti, History, and the Gods; and, most recently, With Dogs at the Edge of Life. A recipient...

... and Unusual, The Law Is a White Dog, With Dogs at the Edge of Life, and her just published memoir, In the Belly of Her Ghost. Her Animal Quintet is forthcoming, and she is currently at work on a book on civil forfeiture and civil life in the United States, tentatively titled Guilty Things. Nergis Ertürk...

.... • • • • There are very real times when I, a very young girl and as a teen, stepped out of the door, in an early morning darkness. The screen door snapped with a bite; and our dog Princess was tied up with her shit piles On Race and Innovation Dossier / Sharma 107 mounting by the side...

... of Britain’s finest essayists and writers.” What Are Universi- ties For? was published in 2012. Colin Dayan is Robert Penn Warren Professor in the Humanities and professor of law at Vanderbilt University. Her books include The Law Is a White Dog: How Legal Rituals Make and Unmake Persons; The Story...

... and that replaced individual memory. This trajectory becomes especially pronounced in the posthumous collec- tion Unrecounted, where every plotless poem is paired with one of Tripp s engravings, each depicting only eyes and the gazes of various people and one dog. What do these eyes want from us? What occurs...

... of the pig or the whimperings of the dog are little more than a cosmological ruse, designed to fool our sometimes overgenerous sympathies. The writings of René Descartes, which deny animals the capacity to suffer, represent the polar position of those who today fight against animal...

... sacrifice at the very origin of the loss of ‘‘Eden’’ and all that it might signify. After David and his dog Kibo see the huge elephant in the moonlight (159), David runs back to the shamba to share with his father the wonder of what he has seen, but what he discovers there is his father and his...

... she, who spent their young adulthood playing and working hard, are “loser dogs” despite the appearance of urban glamour and freedom. This is because conven- tional wisdom still holds that marriage and motherhood are preeminent indicators of female adulthood. Loser dogs in their thirties face...

... . Dayan Colin . 2006 . “ Melville, Locke, and Faith .” Raritan 25 , no. 3 : 30 – 45 . Dayan Colin . 2016a . “ The Old Gray Mare .” Yale Review 104 , no. 2 : 35 – 48 . Dayan Colin . 2016b . With Dogs at the Edge of Life . New York : Columbia University Press...

... / In these merciless slopes, roots sustain / Flows from hollows / From the shadows of weeds / Many paths begin” (12). 11 In an otherworldly landscape, time itself becomes the running dog of empire, celebrating the conquest of an expanse that obscures its violence with monuments to its own delusions of grandeur...

... • • • • we beat the ground with fistfuls of twigs. the monkeys chanting “fly with us up to the canopy we’ll sodomize you.” in flashes in a circle like a belly but- ton the umbilical cord makes a rope to skip with in training for green hell. men & dogs raped by banana trees the cry of the macaw...

... of his neck sliding his beak across his back. Oarlocks catch in their cylinders and rattle. Barr / Bottom 109 Frank tells me about wading through fog in the bottom; he could see far ahead and behind, nothing below his chest. His dogs ran...

... in a white coat, wearing a stethoscope bent over a desk. Black meridians coursed through the outline of a man like a target on the wall behind. A dog, dead and gutted, was strapped to the back of a bike, its yellow skin like a supermarket chicken’s. Someone...