... the intertwined discourses of technology and spiritualism, the focus has almost solely been on the nineteenth century and later, on the age of electric and electronic telecommunications. The medieval ghost poem, as an exemplary case, complicates this account, showing how poetry has long served...

...Benjamin Friedlander A SHORT HISTORY OF LANGUAGE POETRY / ACCORDING TO "HECUBA WHIMSY" Benjamin Friedlander The following study, abridged from a much longer work, is an ex- periment in criticism: a strict rewriting of Jean Wahl's A Short His- tory of Existentialism which faithfully...

...Todd Cronan Copyright © 2004 Qui Parle 2004 BIOLOGICAL POETRY: SANTAYANA'S AESTHETICS Todd Cronan How blind is the zeal of iconoclasts! They pour scorn upon eyes that see not and a mouth that cannot speak...

...Jennifer Bajorek Copyright © 2007 Qui Parle 2007 INSERT INTO BLANKNESS: POETRY AND CULTURAL MEMORY IN BENJAMIN'S AUDELAIRE INTERPRETATION Jennifer Bajorek Baudelaire would never have written poems if he'd had nothing more than the usual...

...Daniel Katz Abstract This essay examines the contradictions of Robert Duncan’s 1960s political poetry by way of his reading of the legacy of modernism, notably as expounded in The H.D. Book . Drawing on the work of Daniel Tiffany, the essay first argues that here Duncan constructs a kitsch Ezra...

..., the essay stages a passing encounter between Nancy’s thought of parting and the poetry of Walt Whitman. At first, the very phrase “Don’t touch me” would seem to contravene Nancy’s emphasis on the body (see, e.g., his important book Corpus ) and touch (not for nothing is Jacques Derrida’s huge book on his...

... comes perilously close to demonstrating that all verse unfolds under the aegis of the word dust . The essay closes by suggesting that Jorie Graham’s poetry offers a new perspective on what it would mean to read the surface of a text, particularly when that text is dusty. Copyright © 2019 Editorial...

... striking are the names from twentieth-cen- tury German poetry that do not find a prominent place in Adorno's work: Rilke, Brecht, and Hofmannsthal. A study on Celan was, of course, planned but never realized.2 The question is then: What is it about conservative poets and restorative lyric...

... Eclipse (httpenglish.utah.edu/eclipse). He is the author, most recently, of the poetry books Strand (2005), Parse (2008), and The Perverse Library (2010), and is the editor (with Kenneth Gold- smith) of Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing (2010). brenda...

... to innovative poetry and poetics — and thus may be said to occupy the paradoxical position referred to above. As critics, each is charged with the reproduction and development of a complex interpretative system, as the necessity of the critical traditions they po- sition themselves within. As poets...

...-garde poetry and poetics. He co-edits Sagetrieb with Benjamin Friedlander and just finished guest- editing a special issue of differences entitled "After Patriarchal Poetry: Feminism and the Contemporary Avant-Garde." Recent essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Poetics...

... the imponderable in relation to the normative: alien abduction, parallel worlds, visceral mysticism, possession by prion viruses, ghostly mediation, and more. The issue features the critical work of five authors, as well as three artistic interventions: poetry by Cristina Peri Rossi (translated from the Spanish...

... abstractly, as simply “the essence of poetry, a poem at its most poetic”—is a category that arose only in the late eighteenth century.1 As the nineteenth century progressed, they argue, a complex of changes in the nature of poetic production, consumption, and criticism led to the gradual “lyriciza...

... between poetry and criticism. Rather than draw out the critical im- plications of these extreme characterizations of Pollock and de Kooning, however, art critics have tended to dismiss O'Hara simply for pushing criticism towards poetry. Here, in its hybrid state, such writing falls into Clement...

... with intimations of nothingness. In the aftermath of Nietzsche, an inherent loss of faith gives rise to new valuations, negative and affi rmative, of nihilism and new fi gurations of belief. Gerard Manley Hopkins’s poetry vacillates between Pascalian tradition and Nietzschean aftermath. I want to explore...

... was published in English in June 2007 by Harbor Mountain Press, and a novel !'jam, which was published in May 2007 by City Lights Books. Translations in German, French, Italian, and Bosnian/Croatian are forthcoming. His poetry was anthologized in Iraqi Poetry Today. He has recited his...

... expression to the liminal space that exists around and between the literary and cultural traditions of France and Algeria. His poetry is equally likely to invoke The Odyssey as it is the muʿallaqāt of pre-Islamic Arabia, 1 and his writings brim not only with the voices of other Maghrebi writers, like...

..., 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...

.... We may well argue, as Goethe insisted on doing, that science too ought to concern itself with that green or that yellow rather than their numbers; it is, however, indisputable that art and poetry, when they are enchanted before poppies or cornfl owers, are enchanted...

..., counter-texts to the interpretive grids of Western taxo- nomic knowledges. Poets who push at the limits of the (Western alphabetic) book and who reject poetry’s commitment to the “in- terior” life of the mind, who might even consider such obsessive interiority a kind of illness, also approach poetry...