The Greeting Card as Poem: Frank Wilderson and the Refiguring of a Genre
Marjorie Perloff reads the Afropessimist author Frank Wilderson’s New Year’s cards as poetry.
Marjorie Perloff reads the Afropessimist author Frank Wilderson’s New Year’s cards as poetry.
Marjorie Perloff revisits the criticism of Russian Formalist Yuri Tynianov, whose essays have been collected in English for the first time.
Roland Greene and Marjorie Perloff talk to Brazilian musician Caetano Veloso.
A Review, an Interview, and Poems
ANDREI CODRESCU'S RECENT The Poetry Lesson (2010) begins with a delicious parody of the college poetry workshop: a class for those who evidently want...
I AM VERY GRATEFUL to Matvei Yankelevich, a poet-critic I admire very much and an editor at the Ugly Duckling Presse, whose verbally and visually...
Cage, so long associated with the New York avant-garde, now strikes me as quintessentially Californian, and more specifically, Angeleno.
A "ghostly reanimation" of the poet's textual presence; translation gives way to transposition, to citational graft and recycling.