Marjorie Perloff is the author of many books on modern and contemporary poetry and poetics, including The Poetics of Indeterminacy: Rimbaud to Cage, The Futurist Moment, Wittgenstein's Ladder, and, most recently, Unoriginal Genius: Poetry by Other Means in the New Century. Her memoir The Vienna Paradox was published in 2004. She is Professor Emerita of English at Stanford University.
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An Interview with Caetano Veloso
Roland Greene and Marjorie Perloff talk to Brazilian musician Caetano Veloso....
Andrei Codrescu
A Review, an Interview, and Poems...
Speaking in Codes
ANDREI CODRESCU'S RECENT The Poetry Lesson (2010) begins with a delicious parody of the college poetry workshop: a class for those ...
A Response to Matvei Yankelevich
I AM VERY GRATEFUL to Matvei Yankelevich, a poet-critic I admire very much and an editor at the Ugly Duckling Presse, ...
The Natural
Cage, so long associated with the New York avant-garde, now strikes me as quintessentially Californian, and more specifically, Angeleno....
Channeling Georg Trakl: Christian Hawkey's "Ventrakl"
A "ghostly reanimation" of the poet's textual presence; translation gives way to transposition, to citational graft and recycling....
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What the Avital Ronell Affair Says about The State of the Profession
