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

By this author

'Writing is a body-intensive activity'

For Marjorie

'A useful extreme'

Wendy Burk's representation of human-plant communication

Lynn Keller

Image adapted from the cover of ’Tree Talks.’

Increasingly, poets have been concerned with exploring and transforming human relations to plant and animal life, while resisting human exceptionalism and attempting to escape or minimize anthropocentrism; their practice aligns with posthumanist investigations across the environmental humanities into the manifestations among more-than-human beings of powers of mind and consciousness once thought to be distinctively human.

Recent ecopoetics has demonstrated considerable interest in what Joan Retallack speaks of as “reinvestigat[ing] our species’ relation to other inhabitants of the fragile and finite territory our species named, claimed, exploited, sentimentalized, and aggrandized as ‘our world.’”[1] Increasingly, poets have been concerned with exploring and transforming human relations to plant and animal life, while resisting human exceptionalism and attempting to escape or minimize anthropocentrism; their practice aligns with posthumanist investigations across the environmental humanities

July 1, 2021

The New Poetry (1969)

Translated by Zane Koss

Clemente Padín

Zane Koss

Syntax, subordinating and coordinating conjunctions, syntagma, paramoiosis, redundancy, dictionaries, adjectivization; unifying strophes, determinate semantic groups, the subject, neologisms, verbs, reflexive anomalies, complementarity, versification; paradigms, pronouns, grammar: all in the trash! No more images induced with elements alien to their own nature; enough of metaphors, the indecisive second term of trivial identifications; enough of the elegiac excrement of a man with the face of a duck.

May 14, 2021