The Pink Guitar
Writing as Feminist Practice
The Pink Guitar is a landmark study of women's writing and poetics—and representations of women artists—in the 20th Century.
Blue Studios
Poetry and Its Cultural Work
Ashbery's Forms of Attention
Hart Crane
After His Lights
A critical reassessment of the life’s work of a major American poet.
Every Goodbye Ain't Gone
An Anthology of Innovative Poetry by African Americans
Showcases brilliant and experimental work in African American poetry.
A Poetics of Impasse in Modern and Contemporary American Poetry
Dissonance (if you are interested)
Dissonance (if you are interested) consists of Incisive essays on modern poetry and translation by a noted poet, translator, and critic.
This Is Called Moving
A Critical Poetics of Film
Distant Reading
Performance, Readership, and Consumption in Contemporary Poetry
Ultimately, Distant Reading treats poetry as a cultural practice that is always situated within specific sites of performance—recited on stage, displayed in magazines, laid out on a page, scrolled on the computer screen—rather than as a transcendent cloud of meaning tethered only to its words.
Integral Music
Languages Of African-American Innovation
An important study of African American contributions to contemporary American poetry.