B Tate - Journal of Modern Literature, 2016 - JSTOR
Lyn Hejinian's My Life and Bernadette Mayer's Midwinter Day both articulate a domestic quotidian devoted to what Rita Felski in Doing Time calls “the repetitive tasks of social …
J Bloch - jml: Journal of Modern Literature, 2012 - JSTOR
This article examines modernist genealogy in Alice Notley's 1992 poem The Descent of Alette. Notley's central speaker finds herself riding on a nightmarish subway ruled by a male …
L Biederman - Women's Studies, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
When asked, at the start of a 2011 interview for the Poetry Foundation, whether she was born in Brooklyn or Queens, the poet Bernadette Mayer gives a neither/both answer.“The …
A staggering memoir from New York Times-bestselling author Ada Calhoun tracing her fraught relationship with her father and their shared obsession with a great poet When Ada …
Sometimes the word “lyric” seems to appear everywhere: either it's used interchangeably with the word “poetry” or it attaches to descriptions of literature, art, film, and even ordinary …
The history of mid-20 th century American poetry should be understood alongside a history of personal recording media. Between the end of WWII and the late 1970s, three …
The Pursuit of Myth in the Poetry of Frank O'Hara, Ted Berrigan and John Forbes traces a tradition of revolutionary self-mythologising in the lives and works of Frank O'Hara, Ted …
Abstract After World War II, New York City became an international cultural capital, and poets and artists flocked to it. In Abstract Concrete, I group three such poets—ones who …
If my words weren't perfect, Larry could fix them with some red or yellow; the same for his brushstrokes and pictures, I could amend them with adjectives and nouns... There was …