and T. V. F. Brogan (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1993), 14. The article
on African poetry is by George Lang.
- Christian Bök, Eunoia (Toronto: Coach House Books, 2001), 103. All further
page references are to this edition. - As of the preparation of the present text, the headnote and complete text of
“Via” have not yet been published. - How 2 1, no. 6 (2001). The Web site is http://w w w.scc.rutgers.edu/however/
v1 6 2001/current/in-conference/bergvall.html. - An excerpt from “About Face” is published as an appendix to my interview
with Caroline Bergvall, “ex/Crème/ental/eaT/ing,” Sources: Revue d’études Anglo-
phones: Special issue, “20th-Century American Women’s Poetics of Engagement,” 12
(spring 2002): 123–35. Like “Via,” “About Face” will appear in Bergvall’s new book,
Mesh. - E-mail from Caroline Bergvall to me, 14 March 2003.
- See Retallack’s “Narrative as Memento Mori” in essay 9 of the present text.
- Hugh Kenner, “Something to Say,” A Homemade World: The American Mod-
ernist Writers (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1975), 60.
Chapter 12
- Tom Raworth, Visible Shivers (Oakland, CA: O Books, 1987).
- Raworth is evidently the oldest living open-heart surgery survivor, treated in
the UK in the ¤rst round of heart operations conducted there in the ¤fties. The sur-
gery for atrial septal defect (the most benign and common form of congenital heart
disease), which then took eight hours to perform, is now no longer necessary; gener-
ally, the defective opening can be closed without subcutaneous incision. - I owe this and much other incidental information about speci¤cs of English
culture in these years to Nate Dorward. - John Barrell, “Subject and Sentence: The Poetry of Tom Raworth,” Critical
Inquiry 17 (winter 1991): 386–409, see 393. - Tom Raworth, Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series, vol. 11, ed. Mark
Zadrozny (Detroit: Gale Research Group, 1990), 297–311. - See e-mail from Tom Raworth to me, 22 October 2002. Ellipses are Raworth’s.
Chapter 13
- Rae Armantrout, The Pretext (Los Angeles: Green Integer, 2001).
- Since this essay was completed, Armantrout has published Veil: New and Se-
lected Poems with the Wesleyan University Press (2001), and a second collection is
forthcoming from Wesleyan in 2004. If this move from small presses to Wesleyan is
not exactly the imprimatur of the Establishment, it nevertheless marks a new level
of success for Armantrout’s poetry.
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