The Portrait of the Language Poet as Autobiographer: The Case of Ron Silliman

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 has been the dismissal of voice as the foundational principle of lyric poetry. In the preface (“Language, Realism, Poetry”) to his anthology In The American Tree, Ron Silliman […]

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 […]

Differentials: Poetry, Poetics, Pedagogy