For Marjorie

Maggie O'Sullivan

November 8, 2012

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Marjorie Perloff

This Jacket2 feature is devoted to the life and work of Marjorie Perloff, whose critical inquiry over the course of more than three decades combines the pragmatism of lucid analysis with the sociohistorically informed commentary of distant reading to arrive at what Charles Bernstein calls “an inductive criticism grounded in a grappling with the poem at hand.” Jacket2 publisher Al Filreis brings together a number of different poets and critics for discussions of Perloff's critical legacy as well as reflections on the interpretive craft she has shaped for American poetics.

Preface

Al Filreis

J. Gordon Faylor

On the unoriginal genius of Marjorie Perloff Jerome McGann

Sound bytes and computer blips Dee Morris

On 'The Poetics of Indeterminacy' Joan Retallack

The contemporary of our grandchildren Richard Sieburth

For Marjorie Maggie O'Sullivan

Perloff and/in France Jan Baetens

Ways of reading: Marjorie Perloff and the sublimity of pragmatic criticism Charles Bernstein

Marjorie Perloff: Die Dichtung und das Ding (poetry and the thing) Vanessa Place

Four wheels and a broken glass Caroline Bergvall

'Radical Artifice' Johanna Drucker

'The Poetics of Indeterminacy: Rimbaud to Cage' Stephen Fredman

Becoming Marjorie Perloff Brian Reed

The unprepared future of an exophonic refugee Al Filreis

'The Futurist Moment' Jean-Michel Rabaté

Marjorie Perloff's twenty-first-century modernism Peter Nicholls

Close, very close Peter Middleton

Marjorie Perloff: A bibliographic essay J. Gordon Faylor

Futurism and schism Marjorie Perloff

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The technological poetics of Thomas Weatherly

Lauri Scheyer (Ramey)

Thomas Weatherly’s literary productivity during the last stage of his life is an important chapter of work. His last years of truly phenomenal creative output also reveal the limitations that still prevail in the ways literary value is often measured and respected, especially in scholarship on African American writers.

December 4, 2019

Emails to Lauri Scheyer (Ramey), 2005–2014

Tom Weatherly

Note: Below are excerpts from four emails written to Lauri Scheyer (Ramey) between 2005 and 2014, including reflections on Weatherly’s writing process, friends and enemies, family, aging, poetic form, teaching, and first arrival in New York (during which “I rewrote [Allen Ginsberg’s] Howl; Kaddish a great poem didn’t need revision”). Sometimes it feels as if we heard in these emails a speaking voice, fragments of an ongoing conversation constructed of anecdote, reminiscence, description, opinion.

December 4, 2019