Emphasizing the diversity of twentieth-century collage practices, Rona Cran's book explores
the role that it played in the work of Joseph Cornell, William Burroughs, Frank O'Hara, and …

Contemporary American poetry can often seem intimidating and daunting in its variety and
complexity. This engaging and accessible book provides the first comprehensive …

A ground-breaking analysis of the short form lineage in twentieth-century American poetry
Proposes a new genealogy of 20th century and contemporary American verse Contains in …

This article tries to develop a complicated relationship between the material-plastic, the
desire principle, and its affective dimensions. It explores how plastic “touches” us multi …

Abstract This essay reads Harryette Mullen's epic poem Muse & Drudge as an innovative
text of the US-Mexico borderlands by focusing on Mullen's literal and figurative transactions …

This dissertation explores aspects of difficulty in the work of post-1945 British and American
poets. While no unified theory of difficulty is attempted, difficulty is interpreted as part of the …

In the past decade a number of scholars have claimed that rap music is a modern form of
poetry, yet few have discussed the reasons why we might consider it so. In order to answer …

This article offers an account of the British Academy-funded Make Your Own Brainard
project, which has put the work of New York School artist and poet Joe Brainard into …

Abstract" Radical Matter" argues that expansive and experimental mixed mode poetic works
since the American mid-century embody a language-based materiality that motivates the …

This dissertation argues for a new history of mid-twentieth-century American poetry shaped
by the emergence of the figure of the poetic speaker as a default mode of reading. Now a …