Differentials: Poetry, Poetics, Pedagogy

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Differentials ...

Modern and Contemporary Poetics Series Editors Charles Bernstein Hank Lazer Series Advisory Board Maria Damon Rachel Blau DuPles ...

Differentials Poetry, Poetics, Pedagogy Marjorie Perloff The University of Alabama Press Tuscaloosa ...

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Contents Acknowledgments vii Introduction: Differential Reading xi Crisis in the Humanities? Recon¤guring Literary Study for th ...

Teaching the “New” Poetries: The Case of Rae Armantrout 243 Writing Poetry/Writing about Poetry: Some Problems of Af¤liation 25 ...

The following essays appeared, most in different form, in the following pub- lications and are reprinted here by permission: “Cr ...

ter,” Contemporary Literature, special issue: American Poetry of the 1990s, ed. Thomas Gardner, 42, 2 (summer 2001): 270–93. “Th ...

mission of Gallimard; and Rosmarie Waldrop, trans., some thing black [from “Unlikeness,” a section of her translation of Quelque ...

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Reading Closely Not long ago I was teaching a graduate course called “Theory of the Avant- Garde,” which covered such major move ...

The noiseless wheels of my car rush with a crackling sound over dried leaves as I bow and pass smiling.^1 In the self-consciousl ...

is behaving peculiarly indeed. More important—if the poet were her lover, why does he merely “bow and pass smiling”? Why no inte ...

Its Poets” is a case in point. In the case of “The Young Housewife,” it surely helps to know that each morning, Dr. Williams, a ...

his “north room” and “dance naked, grotesquely / before my mirror... sing- ing softly to myself, ‘I am lonely, lonely, / I was b ...

same phenomenon occurs in lines 7–8, where the poet, passing “solitary in [his] car,” ¤rst surmises (or imagines) that the young ...

Then, too, consider the relation of line to stanza in “The Young House- wife.” The poem’s twelve lines, ranging from ¤ve to nine ...

torical constraints and cultural markers were operative? It would be fascinat- ing to explore such questions, but current discou ...

It is from this recognition that Brooks now moves to the enigmatic ending of the Ode: “Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is al ...