Differentials: Poetry, Poetics, Pedagogy

Here is the opening: Begin a f acing At a pt of motion How c lose is near to face a face What makes a face how close too near Te ...

fery, or Joan Retallack, as Bergvall would be the ¤rst to admit, but her par- ticular focus here is on verbal/visual contradicti ...

one sense her strategy is perfectly traditional: poetry is, after all, the lan- guage art, the art that, in Hugh Kenner’s words, ...

In 2002 Nate Dorward, the young editor of a little magazine in Toronto called The Gig and an authority on contemporary British p ...

the unpaginated (34–page) text of “Letters” is followed by a twenty-¤ve-page set of shorter poems and the sonnet sequence “Sente ...

the rhy thmic units of, say, Bruce Andrews or Steve McCaffery, Raworth’s starts and stops connote a curious breathlessness, as i ...

The “thought” that Raworth still “runs through” (see line 9 in the long para- graph above) is that “this is taking a long time t ...

on the sea,” and Sidney’s Astrophel, who woos his Stella, “biting my trewand pen”—is parodied in the poet’s “uncharted voyage,” ...

that the texts in question are merely non-sensical, that they have no “mean- ing.” On the contrary, “you can only use yourself i ...

thirty. Back to the house at eight. Make some phone calls. Drink some more. Go to bed. At least that’s the theory. Well, we’re a ...

After that last asterisk we move into the prose of “turning and turning and turning it is really scandalous how we jump up and d ...

how we jump up and down on the international date line,” we realize that the poet’s own movements, memories, and tall tale, as r ...

shall try to get the Penguin book in May. There seems to have been a poetry explosion, and the resulting poeticised particles ar ...

hand and, to my knowledge, had perfect recall of any thing he read. That’s one of the reasons, I’m sure, I have no memory: just ...

I have been out with Gaynor and the family to a café and the waitress was hopeless; forgot every thing. Saw a super funny cowboy ...

linked the East Berlin operator to the West Berlin operator (there was no direct link then) and left them connected all evening. ...

recounting the quarrel as to the authenticity of his ¤rst poem, the poet sets down these lines (25): timber truck vibrates my s ...

I never did describe this room, though I gave you the measurements. The ®oor is wooden, painted grey, as is the skirting board. ...

strange correspondence seems to be as stimulus to the poet’s imagination. However complex the time shifts and the “cassettes” wh ...

In the summer of 1999 Joan Retallack organized a conference at Bard College on the topic “Poetry and Pedagogy: The Challenge of ...