It has been a while since my article “New Sincerity and Commitment to Emotion in Dorothea Lasky’s Poetry” was published in the journal English Studies (available open access here), but I realized I had not written about it here. The
Conceptual confession, or how you can have your vulnerability and eat it too
But can you have your cake and eat it too? My recent article “Conceptual Confession: Asymmetrical Emotion in Writer-Reader Relations in Trisha Low’s The Compleat Purge”, published in the Journal of Modern Literature (43: 4), discusses the connections between conceptual
Bernadette Mayer’s movements in the mind
My new article ”Movement in the present: Poetry as a mindfulness project in Bernadette Mayer’s Studying Hunger Journals” discusses how Mayer’s poetry project observes movements in the mind, all the emotional and affective reactions that cross her mind. Mayer (b.
Difficult Relations: Project update
My current research project is titled Difficult Relations: Reading for Emotion in Recent American Experimental Poetry. I thought I might briefly explain what it is all about. Recent experimental poetry may, for instance, be disjunctive and use appropriated material extracted
Experimentalism as Reciprocal Communication in Contemporary American Poetry
My book, Experimentalism as Reciprocal Communication in Contemporary American Poetry: John Ashbery, Lyn Hejinian, Ron Silliman, is now out from John Benjamins. The book belongs to the FILLM (Fédération Internationale des Langues et Littératures Modernes) book series FILLM Studies in