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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.

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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