...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...

... itself, and was thus not a transcendental reach. Let's look at the last poem in the book that Petlin deals with, the poem called “Einmal,” “Once.” ONCE I did hear him, he did wash the world, unseen, nightlong, real. One and unending, annihilated, I'ed. Light was. Salvation...

...Jenaro Talens Duke University Press 2001 Poems Jenaro Talens boundary 2 28:3, 2001. Copyright © 2001 by Duke University Press. 96 boundary 2 / Fall 2001 El Testamento de Drácula (según F. F. C...

...Faye Kicknosway Duke University Press 2001 Poems Faye Kicknosway SHORT TAKE 20 Christopher Columbus was a thief. Then he was a beggar. Florida was a postcard to him. That’s as close as he got...

...John Keene © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 On Race and Innovation Dossier / Keene 47 John Keene Nonobjective Poems after Malevich NATION FAMILY RESISTANCE boundary 2 42:4 (2015) DOI...

...Miguel Barnet Duke University Press 2002 6736 boundary 2 29:3 / sheet 35 of 265 Three Poems Miguel Barnet • A laborer’s son...

...Nancy Morejón Duke University Press 2002 Translated by Dawn Duke 6736 boundary 2 29:3 / sheet 163 of 265 Three Poems Nancy Morejón...

...Omar Pérez Duke University Press 2002 Translated by Kristin Dykstra 6736 boundary 2 29:3 / sheet 215 of 265 Four Poems Omar Pérez...

...Reina María Rodríguez Duke University Press 2002 Translated by Kristin Dykstra and Nancy Gates Madsen 6736 boundary 2 29:3 / sheet 233 of 265 Two Prose Poems Reina María Rodríguez...

...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...

...: The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley: 1945–1975 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982) and The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley: 1975–2005 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006). Hereafter, this work is cited parenthetically as CP , followed by volume and page numbers, and referred...

...Yiannis Papatheodorou Cavafy's barbarians constitute a peculiar metaphor for the (self-)censoring process of revealing and hiding the voices of Others in the colonial order of the archive. The theme recurs in three of his works—an “unwritten” poem, a “hidden” poem, and a poem included in the canon...

...Hala Halim In contradistinction to Anglophone criticism's airbrushing of all things Egyptian/Arab from the iconic image of C. P. Cavafy, this essay dwells on the poet as an Egyptiote. An Egyptiote orientation, it is argued, variously informs given poems and prose texts in his later years. Probing...

...Luigi Ballerini Abstract A survey of the ingredients and paratextual elements that converged in Charles Bernstein's “Gertrude and Ludwig's Bogus Adventure,” occasioned by the translation of the poem into Italian. Historical hints and literary echoes are shown to be not merely juxtaposed...

...Christi Ann Merrill This essay offers a response—part plea, part protest—to recent events in Pakistan, looking to Agha Shahid Ali's lyrical translation of an Urdu poem by Faiz Ahmed Faiz that asks compellingly, “Friends, what will happen now?” Faiz in his day ignored Eisenhower's empty talk...

...Mohamed-Salah Omri The most famous slogan chanted in Tunisia in January, then in Egypt, Yemen, Libya, and Syria, is a reincarnation of opening lines of the poem “The Will of Life,” written in 1933 by the Tunisian poet Abou el-Kasem Chebbi (1909–1934), which now form the closing part of Tunisia’s...

... to replicate. The georgic is especially interesting in this regard, since the genre is officially agrarian and provincial—the poetry of a certain crop or USDA growing zone. And yet georgic poems in English almost always take an epic and planetary turn. William Cowper's The Task shows how a poem seemingly...

... poetry. When his work manages to describe the time of its own reading in the time of its own reading, we experience mediacy immediately. This review of John Ashbery's Collected Poems, 1956–1987 (Library of America, No. 187) explores what I call the “lyric mediacy” of Ashbery's work and considers how his...

... the contradiction at the heart of all digital archives: on the one hand, the dream of lossless reproduction; on the other hand, the distorting and degrading compression necessary for communicating between networked machines. Through close bibliographic readings of poems by Lyn Hejinian, Lorenzo Thomas, Tina Darragh...

...Herman Rapaport This essay speaks to two New Critical taboos generally held by literary critics, whatever their training. The first concerns the poet's use of a preestablished referent that functions as a sentimental attachment that carries the poem along. This is usually considered a form...