...David Greenham Duke University Press 2005 The Poetry of Origins and the Origins of Poetry: Norman O. Brown’s Giambattista Vico and James Joyce David Greenham This essay is an attempt to recuperate and to begin to understand...

...Kathryne V. Lindberg Depejorating ‘‘Uplift’’ and Re-centering Race Poetry: Lorenzo Thomas’s Extraordinary Measures Kathryne V. Lindberg This collection of essays positions and promotes the key terms of a Black poetic tradition...

...Fredrik Hertzberg Swedish Poetry and Poetics: A Gathering An Editorial Note Charles Bernstein, editorial board In the following pages, we present the work of seven Swedish lan- guage poets. John Mathias, Fredrik Hertzberg, Anders Lundberg, and Jes...

...Rashmi Bhatnagar; Renu Dube; Reena Dube Duke University Press 2004 Meera’s Medieval Lyric Poetry in Postcolonial India: The Rhetorics of Women’s Writing in Dialect as a Secular Practice of Subaltern Coauthorship and Dissent Rashmi Bhatnagar, Renu Dube, and Reena Dube...

...Charles Bernstein American Poetry After 1975: Editor’s Note Charles Bernstein I have had the pleasure of editing two previous special issues of boundary 2—“43 Poets (1984)” (vol. 14, no. 1/2 [Autumn 1985/Winter...

...Jonathan Skinner For William Carlos Williams, poetry was a war machine, a “small (or large) machine made of words.” If the war is a human war on other species, do poetry machines become poetry animals? Can we read Christopher Dewdney's “Permugenesis,” Marianne Moore's “An Octopus,” or Francis...

...Kenneth Goldsmith Barry Bonds is not only the future of athletics, but he's also emblematic of the future of poetry. More machine than man, chemically enhanced, Bonds is our first mainstream posthuman public figure. Bonds's milestone signifies an end to the humanist discourse; he is a martyr...

...Erín Moure Duke University Press 2006 Poetry and Other Englishes: A Forum Edited by David Buuck and Juliana Spahr Introduction David Buuck and Juliana Spahr A literature that is self-aware of and concerned with the material and aesthetic...

...Brian Reed This review essay takes the occasion of the publication of the Fourth Edition of The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics to ask what it might mean, in the digital present, to use print as a medium for trying to speak comprehensively and authoritatively about the history...

.... Introduction: For Dignity; Tunisia and the Poetry of Emergent Democratic Humanism R. A. Judy Looking at what is happening in Tunisia now, one cannot help but ask how revolutions, or revolts, uprisings, and insurrections...

... national anthem and have been sung by some of the most influential Arab stars, written on protest banners, and shouted by students in the face of French and English occupiers and their own governments. The couplet even entered the folklore of global protest music and poetry, and was adopted...

..., Girly Man (2006), with its responses to the events of September 11, 2001, and Recalculating (2013), which is everywhere shadowed by the death in 2008 of his daughter, Emma. Paratactics (Pataquerics) of the Ordinary: The Course of the Comic in Charles Bernstein’s Poetry...

...Gail McConnell By surveying the work of Leontia Flynn, Miriam Gamble, Alan Gillis, and Sinéad Morrissey, this essay proposes that replication is a defining feature of Northern Irish poetry in the post–peace process era. While “Northern Irish poetry” might be a contested term for a variety...

...Charles Bernstein Abstract Li Zhimin, poet and professor at Guangzhou University, asked Charles Bernstein to write the introduction to his anthology of American poetry, which spanned from Dickinson to Stevens, with Bernstein the youngest poet in the collection. Published here in English...

...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...

...Leevi Lehto Abstract This text is Leevi Lehto's introduction to his Finnish translation of Charles Bernstein's work, both poetry and poetics. Lehto argues that Bernstein's poems are interventions into various constellations, or power relations, in the field of poetry, always reacting to something...

... thing I remember about the job interview is that I proposed we do lectures in bars and poetry readings in lecture halls. With the Poetics Program, we achieved something like that. As for the search, my impression is that Bob was at first thinking of old friends like Michael McClure or possibly...

... detrimental to the aesthetic value of literature. The tendency of Taiwanese literary critics to avoid political literature is even more evident in poetry. This essay examines the neglected voices of protest in Taiwanese literary history, especially in modern poetry about actual protest events. First...

...Leevi Lehto Abstract Leevi Lehto, in a keynote on American poetry presented in China, outlines the challenges and possibilities of Language poetry outside the American context, with specific relation to the meaning of translation. Copyright © 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 Language...

...Brian Kim Stefans Abstract Focusing on two key themes, or vectors, of Charles Bernstein's latest book of poetry, Topsy-Turvy , that of brokenness and the various references to “God” or religious belief, this review argues that there is a new metaphysical dimension in Bernstein's recent poetry...