Differentials: Poetry, Poetics, Pedagogy

Barnes, and a host of American expatriates in Paris), the intactness of Ameri- can English was threatened, and the stage was set ...

But how exactly could the “disregard” of “existing grammatical and syn- tactical laws” contribute to the making of revolution? I ...

sense is dancing, the words dance. The language is drunk. The very words are tilted and effervescent. And again: Mr. Joyce has d ...

wordplay contradicts Beckett’s complaint that English usually cannot cap- ture the sensuous ®avor of an image or action: Winkelm ...

repeated exclamations suggest that in the darkness (umbra), it has become more and more dif¤cult for the women to hear one anoth ...

the Flemish countries” (Man from Babel 9). And further, both French and German lost their hold over Jolas when as a teen-ager he ...

Or, in free verse: My nostalgias seek your moods In every meditative dusk, When I am tired with the tedium of machines, This age ...

a poet I called Theo Rutra, in order to project certain of my own neo- logistic work, and soon this fellow Rutra became my alter ...

Note that even here Jolas identi¤es people by their voices, by the way they sound. And note that the Nazis are aggressively mono ...

my words amerigrated my words saw steelsparkle my words nightstormed concrete.... they asphaltwandered doom manhattan words swar ...

in the course of the following three years, did not survive World War II.^18 When, at war’s end, Jolas was stationed in Germany ...

dred thousand words, but millions of words. It will not be an arti¤cial lan- guage, but one that has its roots in organic life i ...

(2) From Alfred Arteaga, “Xronotop Xicano”^21 Aguila negra, rojo chante. Tinta y pluma. Textos vivos, written people: the vato w ...

voce velate veiled voice under breath murmuration render mute strike dumb voiceless tongueless. Brathwaite, Arteaga, Cha: all th ...

with “Lass night about 2:45 well well well before / the little black bell of the walk of my elec- / tronic clock cd wake me”—a d ...

the black eagle devouring the serpent on the red ground of the Mexican ®ag. But chante may be the imperative of chantar (“to pla ...

as in “Inside. Outside. / Glass. Drape. Lace. Curtain. Blinds. Gauze.” The search for identity, for personhood, is continually s ...

new version of multilingualism—and many poets are now following the ex- ample of Brathwaite^29 —far from supporting the internat ...

In 1998 the Beckett scholar Lois Oppenheim asked me to write an essay for her forthcoming collection Samuel Beckett and the Arts ...

All the more reason, then, for the radio artist—and Beckett is surely one of the ¤nest—to turn this information function, this r ...