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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Topsy-Turvy

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176 pages, paper and ebook. Audiobook is from Chicago and Amazon/Aubible.

Beasts of no nation

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Lily Scherlis

Image adapted from cover of ‘Invasive Species.’

When they adopted the term “invasive species,” midcentury ecologists imposed a lexicon of human violence onto the migration of organisms, suffusing natural phenomena with political flavor. Invasion is a versatile metaphor for all kinds of unwanted arrivals and threats to national borders; the term supercharges crusades against overly dominant flora and fauna with xenophobic emotion.

who made this taxonomy?
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Excerpts from 'Undulations' 2020–2021

Jerome Rothenberg

[Anne Tardos’s forthcoming book, Undulations, collects poems written from 2020 to 2021. Composed in journal format, it chronicles our global crisis years with poems varying in form and content. Her language and imagery speak to the grueling conditions and fascinations of our time. The book’s focus, morphing from subject to subject, is an interpolation of political and scientific news, developments in astrophysics, and what seems to be a permanent threat from COVID.