Close Listening w/ Charles Bernstein

On November 11, 2009, Marjorie Perloff spoke with Charles Bernstein on Close Listening. Their conversation and a reading from The Vienna Paradox have been archived at Pennsound.You will also find links at Charles Bernstein’s blog and Ron Silliman’s blog. Click through directly to the audio files at Pennsound below. Close Listening readings and conversations at [...]

The Sound of Poetry / The Poetry of Sound

Citation Contents Reviews Purchase ISBN 9780226657424, 9780226657431 Citation: Perloff, Marjorie and Craig Dworkin, Eds. The Sound of Poetry / The Poetry of Sound Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2009. Contents: The sound of poetry / the poetry of sound / Marjorie Perloff and Craig Dworkin 1 Prelude: Poetry and Orality? / Jacques Roubaud (translated [...]

Avant-Garde Community and the Individual Talent

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 forerunners in battle who paved the way for the rest (see Calinescu 98-99). The avant-garde is thus, by definition, ahead of its time. But not in an evolutionary sense, for the avant-garde is also invariably […]

Language Poetry and the Lyric Subject Ron Silliman’s Albany Susan Howe’s Buffalo

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 the body–in the stomach? the chest? the genitals? the throat? the head? One can look for it and already one is not oneself, one is […]