Peter Nicholls

Peter Nicholls is professor of English at New York University. His publications include Ezra Pound: Politics, Economics and Writing; Modernisms: A Literary Guide; George Oppen and the Fate of Modernism; and many articles and essays on literature and theory. He coedited with Laura Marcus The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century English Literature and with Gianni Cianci Ruskin and Modernism. He has recently edited On Bathos with Sara Crangle, and is currently US editor of the journal Textual Practice.

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[N.B. Based on nouns drawn by systematic chance from poems by Gloria Gervitz and Cecilia Vicuña and freely recomposed here by Jerome Rothenberg. The original poems to appear next year in Rothenberg and Taboada, A Book of Americas.]

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for Cecilia Vicuña

a body hanging

by a thread

cries emptiness