Avant-Garde Community and the Individual Talent Posted on April 28, 2009May 2, 2009 by marie The Case of Language Poetry The term avant-garde, we sometimes forget, was originally a military metaphor: it referred to the front flank of the army, the foreru... Read More
The Portrait of the Language Poet as Autobiographer: The Case of Ron Silliman Posted on March 19, 2009May 2, 2009 by marie published in Qarry West, 34: Ron Silliman Issue, ed. Tom Vogler (1998): 167-81. One of the cardinal principles--perhaps the cardinal principle--of Language poetics ... Read More
Language Poetry and the Lyric Subject Ron Silliman’s Albany Susan Howe’s Buffalo Posted on March 19, 2009May 2, 2009 by marie published in Albany, Critical Inquiry, 25 (Spring1999), 405-434. The “personal†is already a plural condition. Perhaps one feels that it is located somewhere within, somewhere... Read More