...Jim Rosenberg This piece is an essay describing my precompositional “semantic method” and placing my poetics in the context of prior poetries, such as Projective Verse. It was originally written for the conference “BIOS: The Poetics of Life in Digital Media,” held at the University of West Virginia...

... an anonymous woman pleas into the receiver for help, the discussion seeks to both locate and complicate the so-called human element captured in recordings of the voice. Using Eric Santner's notion of creaturely life as a conceptual lens, this piece argues that the melancholy poetics that often accompanies...

... articulated the revolution, as well as a sense of the arch of those trends. What appears in this dossier are the fruits of that effort. Each of the pieces here is informed by an intense contest currently going on in the immediate post-insurrection phase between the traditional old-guard bourgeois elites...

... of “liberating” Tibet. Wang Hui’s article “The ‘Tibetan Question’ East and West: Orientalism, Regional Ethnic Autonomy, and the Politics of Dignity” analyzes the March 2008 “riots” in and around Lhasa in order to understand the impediments to a real solution to the crisis in Tibet. This piece suggests...

...Bruce Robbins The night before her suicide, Anna Karenina has a strange nightmare about a muzhik, or former serf, who speaks French and is doing something with a piece of iron. Given the place of class in the novel, if mainly on the Levin side rather than the Anna side, critics of Tolstoy have said...

... safeguards. Unlike criminal forfeiture ( in personam ), civil forfeiture generally proceeds against the offending property ( in rem ), not against the person. A piece of property does not have the rights of a person; so, instead of proving crime beyond “a reasonable doubt,” suspicion equal to “probable cause...

... into a piece of intellectual property valuable in and of itself. As multinational corporations have outsourced less profitable areas of production, and brand ownership has become relatively more profitable, the connection between any particular brand name and the supply chains supporting it is increasingly...

... attachment and the sweet nothing, given how central they are to poetry. This article is a short section from a book I'm working on that is composed of many short pieces on all manner of topics that concern contemporary poetry. Duke University Press 2009 A Liquid Hand Blossoms...

...Abigail Lang Abstract Originally written as an afterword to a book-length translation of poems by Charles Bernstein, this piece was meant to introduce his recent poetry and poetics to a French audience. It does so by pondering the twin economic and nautical senses contained in the title Bernstein...

... durée of the color line of caste—and he agreed. I quote myself, then: Two girls, between eleven and fifteen years of age, show me what they are being taught in primary school. It is a piece about South Africa. They have absolutely no clue at all what the piece is about, as they don’t about...

... of the procedures I want to identify as Creeley’s signatures, and in part because of its obscurity; I want to locate Creeley’s tendencies outside of the anthology pieces. Most of all I want to use Stevens’s magisterial control as a clarifying counter to Creeley’s “awkwardnesses...

... fig- ures such as Richard Hoggart, and on higher education; and in Common Reading: Critics, Historians, Publics (2008), which brings together thirty pieces on an impressive range of modern critics. More recently, he has pub- lished That’s Offensive: Criticism, Identity, Respect (2010), a short...

... it was rejected by the 1912 Salon des Indépendants. Duchamp later wrote that rejection of the piece by the steering committee, which included his brother, was sufficiently traumatic that it “gave him a turn” (see Naumann 1999: 45). The “turn” Duchamp received was a radical perspectival shift in his concept...

... with and under the influence of Language Writing. This is somewhat less true of her 1996 collaborative book with artist Alison Saar, Arcade, and even less true of her 2002 chapbook, Piece Logic. At the levels of form and content, Local History appears to evade the more obvious trap- pings of procedures...

..., depression, and family dysfunction) plaguing much of the diasporic Korean community here in the United States, of which I am a member, have their roots in the multigenerational fallout of nation building and foreign interventionism into the Korean peninsula. These pieces also allude to a failed love...

... by Duke University Press. 108 boundary 2 / Spring 2001 At fourteen I was made to read Catullus who wrote about a sparrow’s death. I penciled in tiny letters above the Latin each word’s English meaning, pieced bits of syntax together so a bird, a woman...

... Dits et écrits from which these pieces are selected.1 My guess is that the choice was at least partly driven by marketing considerations, which would suggest directing each volume toward a specific interest group. Such considerations would also explain the decision to publish first the volume...

... of triumph of the French Revolution—is drawn from Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project, and Ponte’s own piece ends with a profane ‘‘illumination also in the style of Benjamin, that seems to suggest a utopian dimension amidst the despair...

...—of sustainable communal and institu- tional practices. The tattered remainder that divides Mandela’s successful work to dismantle apartheid—mapped out piece by piece with impeccable vigilance in his diary and notebook entries (in prison letters, often seques- tered, and notes of conversations during his...

... and the secular as more imbricated with another than otherwise. In the end, his antipathy to the gentry is of a piece with his resistance to the autocracy of mass society, seeing elite domination of thought and society as the core of that autocracy. With his analysis focusing on Lu Xun’s search...