Differentials: Poetry, Poetics, Pedagogy

the academy—a recent phenomenon—they have wanted to out-theory the theory gurus whom they sense to be the premier members of a g ...

particular competitive circuit. Helen Vendler has written books on Shake- speare’s sonnets and Keats’s odes, whereas I myself ha ...

academic’s dismissal of Gilbert Sorrentino as being “just” a writer. Thus, Darragh’s censuring letter was a salutary if painful ...

the most perceptive, the most genuinely engaged criticism of our own time is that of poets. I am thinking of John Ashbery on Ray ...

become, as they have, increasingly formulaic, some form of counteraf¤liation becomes increasingly appealing. Flexibility, as Fra ...

Introduction William Carlos Williams, “The Young Housewife,” in The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams, vol. 1, 1909–19 ...

Nate Dorward, “On Raworth’s Sonnets,” Chicago Review 47, no. 1 (spring 2001): 17–35, see 18, 21. Tom Raworth, Collected Poems ( ...

second program will award up to thirty grants of ¤fteen hundred dollars each to support doctoral students who are using their tr ...

sity Press, 1960), 36–37. I have translated the word philosophoteron as “philosophical” rather than “scienti¤c,” which is mislea ...

Eliot,” New Statesman 8 (January 1921); rpt. in T. S. Eliot: The Critical Heritage, 111–17, 115. The text used for “Gerontion” ...

Letters, 310–11, emphasis mine. Cf. Eliot’s letter of 17 June 1919 to his niece Eleanor Hinkley. Here he describes at length th ...

1969), 88–92; Robert Kern, Orientalism, Modernism, and the American Poem (Cam- bridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1996), ...

perience of visuality, but also in its preoccupation with the invisible” (21); as such, the Image is part of a larger “submerged ...

Pierre Cabanne, Dialogues with Marcel Duchamp, trans. Ron Padgett (New York: Viking, 1971), 41–43. In French, the title of the ...

version of Wittgenstein’s own letters in English, in an appendix; German translations by J. Schulte (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp ...

Samuel Beckett, Molloy (1955; New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1989), 7; Erich Franzen, trans., Beckett, Molloy (Frankfurt am Main: ...

1929); rpt. in Disjecta: Miscellaneous Writings and a Dramatic Fragment, ed. Ruby Cohn (New York: Grove Press, 1984), 27–28. Sa ...

nium: The University of California Book of Modern and Postmodern Poetry, vol. 2, From Postwar to Millennium (Berkeley: Universit ...

ence, Philosophy, ed. Josué V. Harari and David F. Bell (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Uni- versity Press, 1982), 65. Martin Esslin, ...

ignoring the complex time shifts: in the present of the play’s opening, Addie has long been dead. Kalb also refers oddly to Ada ...