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Marjorie Perloff

Long Vita

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Online Works

Writings:


• Notes from the Air: Selected Later Poems by John Ashbery, Bookforum, 14 no 4 (Dec/Jan 2008) [PDF]
• Where Trees do their Witchy Dance: August Kleinzahler, Times Literary Supplement. July 9, 2008 [PDF]
• "The Radical Poetics of Robert Creeley," Electronic Book Review, 10 (2007) [PDF]
• Personally Speaking: Martin Amis, THE SECOND PLANE: September 11: 2001-2007 from the Times Literary Supplement, 14 Feb. 2008 [PDF]
• Weimar on the Pacific: German Exile Culture in Los Angeles and the Crisis of Modernism. From Modernism/Modernity, 15, 2 (2008) [PDF]
• "The First Futurist Manifesto Revisited," Rett Kopi: Manifesto issue: Dokumenterer Fremtiden (2007) [PDF]
• Yoko Tawada, "Speech Police and Polyglot Play," For Ernst Jandl, translated by Marjorie Perloff LYRIC 9 (2006) [PDF]
• "An Image from a Past Life": Beckett's Yeatsian Turn, Fulcrum [PDF]
• Learning from Guy Davenport [PDF]
• Conceptualisms, Old and New ( Parkett, 2007) [PDF]
• Screening the Page/ Paging the Screen: Digital Poetics and the Differential Text ((From New Media Poetics: Contexts, Technotexts, and Theories, ed. Adelaide Morris and Thomas Swiss) [PDF]
• "Sound Scraps, Vision Scraps": Paul Celan's Poetic Practice (From Reading for Form, ed. Susan J. Wolfson and Marshall Brown) [PDF]
• "Easter 1916": Yeats's World War I Poem (From Tim Kendall (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of British and Irish War Poetry) [PDF]
• The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain 950-149 (Bookforum) [PDF]
• Playing The Numbers: The French Reception Of Louis Zukofsky (Verse 22-23, 2006) [PDF]
• John Cage's Living Theatre (From Martin Puchner and Alan Ackerman (eds.), Against Theatre: Creative Destruction on the Modernist Stage) [PDF]
• Review of Karl Kraus: Apocalyptic Satirist, Volume 2: The Postwar Crisis and the Rise of the Swastika by Edward Timms. (Bookforum, June-September 2006) [PDF]
• "A Lost Batallion of Platonic Conversationalists": "Howl" and the Language of Modernism [PDF]
• Review of Party in the Blitz: The English Years by Elias Canetti, (Bookforum, Dec/Jan. 2006) [PDF]
• "Moving Information: On Kenneth Goldsmith's The Weather", (Open Letter: "Kenneth Goldsmith & Conceptual Poetics", 2005)
• The Great war and the European avant-garde [PDF]
• "Vienna Roast: On Elfriede Jelinek" Bookforum, June-September 2005 [PDF]
• "Fluxier-than-Thou: Review Essay" Modernism/Modernity, 11, no. 3 (2004) [PDF]
• Ian Hamilton Finlay "Dreams of Weeds" Times Literary Supplement, April 29, 2005 [PDF]
• "In Love with Hiding: Samuel Beckett's War", Iowa Review, 35, no. 2 (2005) [PDF]
• "The Aura of Modernism" (Modernist Cultures, Volume 1: Issue 1, Spring 2005) [PDF]
• "Anna Akhmatova in Translation" PN Review 163 (May-June 2005) [PDF]
• Perloff interviewed by David Clippinger
• A Conversation with Charles Bernstein (Fulcrum, no. 2, 2003)
• Tom Raworth: Collected Poems (Times Literary Supplement, 2003) [PDF]
• Three Chapters from 21st-Century Modernism, The "New" Poetics (Blackwell Manifesto, 2002)
  1. Introduction [ .pdf | .rtf ]
  2. Chapter 1: Avant-Garde Eliot [ .pdf | .rtf ]
  3. Chapter 3: The Conceptual Poetics of Marcel Duchamp [ .pdf | .rtf ]
• Still Time for Surprises: John Ashbery's Recent Books
• Janus Faced-Blockbuster: Cary Nelson's "Anthology of Modern American Poetry"
• Dialogue on Evaluation in Poetry: Marjorie Perloff and Robert von Hallberg
• When The Saints Go Marching By: Leigh Davis' "General Motors"
• Reading Gass Reading Rilke
• Preface to Wellman's Cellophane (Johns Hopkins U.P, 2001)
• Introduction to the reissue of David Antin's Talking (Dalkey Archive, 2001).
• Happy World: What Lyn Hejinian's Poetry Tells Us About Chance, Fortune and Pleasure
• Crisis in the Humanities
• Emily Dickinson and the Theory Canon
• Differential Poetics in Kenneth Goldsmith's Fidget and John Kinsella's Kangaroo Virus
• Roy Fisher's Language Book
• Marjorie Perloff ENGLISH AS A "SECOND" LANGUAGE : Mina Loy's "Anglo-Mongrels and the Rose" from Jacket
• "Concrete Prose": Haroldo de Campos's Galáxias and After
• Review of Ezra and Dorothy Pound, Letters in Captivity
• After Language Poetry: Innovation and its Theoretical Discontents
• "Logocinéma of the Frontiersman": Eugene Jolas's Multilingual Poetics and its Legacies
• Language Poetry and the Lyric Subject: Ron Silliman's Albany, Susan Howe's Buffalo
• Cultural Liminality / Aesthetic Closure?: The "Interstitial Perspective" of Homi Bhabha
• Yang Introduction: Younger American Poets
• Normalizing John Ashbery
• The Silence That Is Not Silence: Acoustic Art In Samuel Beckett's Embers
• In Search of the Authentic Other: The Poetry of Araki Yasuada
• Literary Literacy (Chronicle of Higher Education)
• Dada Without Duchamp / Duchamp Without Dada: Avant-Garde Tradition and the Individual Talent
• After Free Verse: The New Non-Linear Poetries
• How Russian Is It: Lyn Hejinian's Oxota
• Roundtable on Intellectuals
• Inner Tension / In Attention: Steve McCaffery's Book Art
• Triplespace (On Hank Lazer's Poetry)
• Lucent and Inescapable Rhythms: "Metrical Choice" and Historical Formation
• Frank O'Hara: Poet among Painters
• The Morphology of the Amorphous: Bill Viola's Videoscapes
• Wittgenstein's Ladder: Poetic Language and the Strangeness of the Ordinary published by the University of Chicago Press (1996)
• Introductory Chapter to Wittgenstein's Ladder (1996)
• Whose New American Poetry?: Anthologizing in the Nineties
• Barbed-Wire Entanglements: The New American Poetry 1930-32
• What Has Occured Only Once: Barthes's Winter Garden / Boltanski's Archives
• The Music of Verbal Space: John Cage's "What You Say"
• John Cage's Dublin, Lyn Hejinian's Leningrad: Poetic Cities as Cyberspaces
• What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Poetry: Some Aporias of Literary Journalism
• Parker Tyler: Late Late Modern
• Postmodernism / Fin de Siecle:The Prospects for Openness in a Decade of Closure
• Sentence, not Sentence
• Poetry 1956: A Step Away From Them
• Tolerance and Taboo: Modernist Primitivisms and Postmodernist Pieties
• Modernism without the Modernists: A Response to Walter Benn Michaels
• Something is Happening Mr. Jones
• Discussing Ezra Pound

Sound Files:
• Perloff on PennSound

About the Author:
• Encyclopedia entry on Marjorie Perloff from The Encyclopedia of Literary Critics and Criticism (Fitzroy Dearborn, 1999)
• TLS Review of Poetry On and Off The Page
• Perloff in the Nineties by David Zauhar (connect)

Page Last Updated: July 2005

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