Language Poetry – Marjorie Perloff

Avant-Garde Community and the Individual Talent

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

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

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 inside ... Read More