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boundary 2 (2018) 45 (3): 125–147.
Published: 01 August 2018
..., it explores the relationship between literature and protests from a relatively broad perspective in an attempt to delineate the poetry of protest. Second, it discusses how Taiwanese poets used poetry to express their dissent when faced with varying social issues in different eras. The overall aim...
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boundary 2 (2020) 47 (4): 139–156.
Published: 01 November 2020
...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...
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boundary 2 (2024) 51 (2): 19–38.
Published: 01 May 2024
...Chris Mustazza Abstract Engaging with Lytle Shaw's Narrowcast: Poetry Audio Research as a point of departure and persistent interlocutor, this essay argues that new digital methods of studying recordings of poets as speech share common ground with the speech science used in insidious practices...
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boundary 2 (2022) 49 (4): 67–110.
Published: 01 November 2022
... the humanizing rhetoric and lyrical modes of conventional African American poetry, these poets use the trope of the objectified Black body to deconstruct linguistic processes of racial reification from within. 19. As Amy De'Ath ( 2015 : 300) points out, Martin's use of the passive voice in this passage “de...
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boundary 2 (2021) 48 (4): 65–77.
Published: 01 November 2021
.... Bernstein discusses his connection to Russian poets, starting with Arkadii Dragomoshchenko. He also addresses the way the Cold War torqued the reception of Russian modernist poetry, using Mandelstam as an example. Tool? Tool and also medium, because we have to reinvent what translation is and how...
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boundary 2 (2021) 48 (4): 129–137.
Published: 01 November 2021
... suggested for the collection: Poetry Bailout (in French, Renflouer la poésie ). What is the value of poetry? What are its uses? These are questions which have underpinned Bernstein's work. In an early essay, adapting a statement by Simone Weil, Bernstein posited that poetry draws its social—or antisocial...
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boundary 2 (2017) 44 (2): 213–239.
Published: 01 May 2017
...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...
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boundary 2 (2023) 50 (4): 171–194.
Published: 01 November 2023
...Eugene Ostashevsky Abstract This essay attempts to think through what a “translingual” poetics might be like for contemporary poetry. Its first section discusses the term translingual as it is used in some areas of applied linguistics. The second section constructs an imaginary scenario where...
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boundary 2 (2009) 36 (3): 97–103.
Published: 01 August 2009
... indeterminate somatic pathways, where deep listening operates a reading machine. Faced with an age of extinction, remembering Cecilia Vicuña's and Antonin Artaud's call for a poetics of volatile agency and of bodily change, let us write island preserves of animality into the subject. Poetry animals...
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boundary 2 (2021) 48 (4): 279–297.
Published: 01 November 2021
... that moves beyond his poetry's earlier emphases on the purely interpersonal and material nature of language and its uses. Through a discussion of Bernstein's concept of the never-attained “virtual” in his essay “Poetics of the Americas” and philosopher Gilles Deleuze's concept of the “virtual,” I argue...
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boundary 2 (2018) 45 (1): 201–229.
Published: 01 February 2018
... of reasons, it is useful here because of the ways these poets struggle with and critique the neoliberal normalization and market-driven homogenization of Northern Irish culture in the aftermath of the Belfast Agreement (Good Friday Agreement). But this poetry also admits complicity with the historical...
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boundary 2 (2022) 49 (3): 123–132.
Published: 01 August 2022
... in a remote meadow ringed by second-growth redwoods. Brown developed his interest in the “law of metamorphosis,” which he thought poetry captures, and put his attention on how the human body changes, producing text as sound or performance. Using two anthologies compiled by Jerome Rothenberg, Brown drew...
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boundary 2 (2021) 48 (4): 85–89.
Published: 01 November 2021
... . From the first, Bernstein emphasized the idea that poetry is not the expression of feeling but a constructivist art in which language is taken out of its normal context and recharged. In “Artifice of Absorption,” Bernstein insists that the poet uses all the tools at his command to create a new kind...
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boundary 2 (2009) 36 (3): 105–120.
Published: 01 August 2009
... concerns cases in which a poem absolutely depends upon a priori emotional attachments to tran- scendental referents; that is, I will be interested in poems that require us to have a preestablished relationship to content. The idea that such poetry is bad by definition may, in fact, be more...
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boundary 2 (2023) 50 (2): 157–194.
Published: 01 May 2023
... in general and innovative Black poetry in particular. The essay then turns to a major through line of the anthology, in which many writers consider Black futures by revisiting historical archives and imaginaries. Drawing on a lineage of Black feminist thinkers, Joshua Lam uses Christina Sharpe's concept...
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boundary 2 (2017) 44 (3): 99–128.
Published: 01 August 2017
... of materialism in Wordsworth's verse, one that alights upon and magnifies aspects of the natural world that are irrecuperable by the subject or by poetic symbol. In poems from across Wordsworth's varied career, the formal properties of poetry are used to record a simultaneous material persistence and autonomy...
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boundary 2 (2021) 48 (4): 15–63.
Published: 01 November 2021
... in German in Der Standard ; (3) “Interview with Philip Davenport” (England, 2012), focusing on the marginalization of radical formal poetry in the US versus the UK; (4) “Interview with Maurizio Medo” (Peru, 2014), previously published only in Spanish, focusing on the importance of Cage and Mac Low...
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boundary 2 (2021) 48 (4): 231–254.
Published: 01 November 2021
... they are used to discipline and contain dissent. Poetry offers not a moral compass but an aesthetic probe. And it can provide a radical alternative to the outcome-driven thinking” (2016: 79). This resonates with Edgar Allan Poe, whose tomb is the birthplace of pataquerics. Poe: “I would define, in brief...
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boundary 2 (2013) 40 (2): 147–182.
Published: 01 May 2013
... of the modernist field as a whole. We then use these visualizations to develop a body of new conceptual categories, such as “brokerage” and “closure,” to analyze the structural relations between poets and how their interactions help to constitute the field of modernist poetry as a whole. © 2013 by Duke...
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boundary 2 (2012) 39 (2): 201–208.
Published: 01 May 2012
...Paul A. Bové Criticism should take on board the traditions of Blackmur, Auerbach, and Said to deal philologically and lovingly with the human history recorded and created in the use of language. Poetry especially is the vestibule for critics who understand that categorical and conceptual knowledge...