...Kimberly Juanita Brown Using a productive deployment of the double elegy, poets Lucille Clifton and June Jordan carve out a space of maternal retrieval to negotiate the loss of their creative yet stifled mothers. In doing so, both writers engender fury as a mechanism of propelled delineation...

... distinguishes the lan- guage poets from these predecessors — and binds them all the more closely to Foucault — is their interest in subjectless writing as the basis for an intervention into philosophical discourse, not (as in Ashbery) as the basis for a new canon of beauty...

...Paul Fleming Copyright © 2004 Qui Parle 2004 THE SECRET ADORNO' Paul Fleming Lyric — at least in the case of Adorno — can lead to strange liaisons. When discussing lyric poets, Adorno repeatedly finds him- self in bed with the wrong man. While the list of poets demanding...

..., a poet whose subject was philosophical: The point is that poetry is to a large extent an art of per- ception and that the problems of perception as they are developed in philosophy resemble similar problems in poetry. It may be said that to the extent that the analysis...

... the Algerians Kateb Yacine and Mohammed Dib, but with the giants of French letters, like André Breton, Arthur Rimbaud, and Charles Baudelaire; German Romantics like Friedrich Hölderlin; medieval Sufi poets like Ibn ʿArabi; and on and on and on. Over almost fifty years, having published more than fifteen works...

... own place — ? — Leslie Scalapino, New Time The essays presented here are, in related ways, investigations of the poetics of the new, researches into the literary and cultural status of new meaning. The authors are each innovative poets and critics...

... a metaphor. — Santayana Santayana the Augustan In his farewell address to Downing College, Cambridge, a sixty-eight-year-old F. R. Leavis, bade goodbye to his colleagues and students with a wry nod to the philosopher, poet...

... philosophically. Let us turn briefl y to Socrates’ formulation: For all good poets, epic as well as lyric, compose their beautiful poems not by art, but because they are inspired and possessed. And as the Corybantian revellers when they dance are not in their right mind, so...

... motives poets have for writing poetry. —Walter Benjamin' It is the singular achievement of Walter Benjamin's late texts on Baudelaire to have sketched for us one possible way that the subject might get through capital, one way that it (or "we") might...

...,” where the catastrophic event of Lincoln’s death prompts the poetic subject to address a che vuoi? to the symbolic Other as the depository of his truth, that is, as that which is apt to legitimize and guarantee the role that the poet takes on as an elegist speaking in the name of the American...

... and urban. Landscape artists who write, and who write well, with a poet- ics (Frederick Law Olmsted, Robert Smithson, Ian Hamilton Fin- lay, Gilles Clément), make a compelling case for the extension of writing by other means—as if their landscapes, gardens, and earth works were poems without books...

... “Immortal.” He had resigned as the president of Senegal four years before, in 1980, and had returned to what he had always considered to be his real life, that of a poet. In the inaugural speech he gave to welcome the Senegalese among the members of the Academy, Edgar Faure saluted him...

... and racial hatred.” 2 Kitsch’s archaizing diction and structural nostalgia in this instance create a futurity in the image of a past that never existed. According to Tiffany, this devastating legacy meant that the next generation of American poets mostly read the Cantos through a fragmentary “hyper...

...: studied classics, supported the monarchy, emigrated to Brazil in 1919, and so on). One of the first apparent ironies of Pessoa’s work noted by crit- ics turns on how the “proper name” of the poet might be thought to signify the impropriety of his poetic identity...

... actually composed by ghosts. At the same time, anthologies that included ghost poetry did not treat ghostly authors exactly as they did historical male poets of public standing and reputation, which comprised the norm for the concept of authorship. Anthologies typically isolated the heterodox from...

... installations, the West has examined and reexamined literary culture as a visual object through publishing houses, performances pieces, and galleries. Perhaps at the head of this list of craftsmen and poets belongs Dmitri Prigov, Russian au- thor, artist, and purveyor of the perplexing. Prigov began his...

... and deaf in the face of life and history. Perhaps for this reason the poets— even and above all the great- est poets, Homer and the tragedians he loved so much— are exiled by Plato, in a famous chapter of The Republic, from his ideal state and from the spiritual formation...

.... The German department, whose Max Kade Center boasted, not long ago, such writers-in-residence as the famed dra- matists Max Frisch and Friedrich Duerrenmatt, and the Concrete poet Eugen Gomringer, was dismantled in 2008. Now primarily a service department, the Department of French...

...). What happens, then, when the modernist poet exploring the ex- perience of belief, and with no more visionary access to glory than the modern thinker, sets about to capture in image and trope the conundrum of the relation of the other world to this world? Con...

... be. Thanks to its existential otherness, dust is often characterized as an enchanted substance that effects improbable, if not overtly transgressive, mediations between the physical and the metaphysical. Since the death of Chaucer, the Poets’ Corner of Westminster Abbey has been the burial place of highly...