De La Salle University Publishing House (DLSUPH)

Poetics in A New Key: Interviews and Essays

Author: Marjorie Perloff

Published and distributed by:
De La Salle University (DLSU) Publishing House, 2013
ISBN 978-971-555-575-3
264 pages

Book Description

Poetics in a New Key, a collection of interviews and essays, presents an accessible and provocative introduction to the critical thought of a most formidable and prolific critic writing now on twentieth-century poetry and poetics — Marjorie Perloff. The fourteen interviews in this volume — conducted by accomplished scholars and passionate seekers of the “new” poetics from the United States, Denmark, Norway, France, and Poland — provide a rich discussion of a spectrum of topics on poetry: its nature as a literary genre, its aesthetic preoccupations, its current state of existence, as well as its “differential” relation to art, politics, language, theory, and technology. This collection also features three essays by Perloff on matters both personal and professional: her academic memoir, poetry pedagogy, and the (re)constitution of the intellectuals in the 21st century. This book will prove to be an indispensable and inspiring resource for both scholars and poets who care to live a life of attention, on and off the page of poetry.

About the Author

About the Author

Marjorie Perloff is Sadie Dernham Patek Professor of Humanities Emerita at Stanford University and Florence Scott Professor of English Emerita at the University of Southern California. Her books include The Poetics of Indeterminacy: From Rimbaud to Cage (1981; revised 1999), Radical Artifice: Writing Poetry in the Age of Media (1992), Wittgenstein’s Ladder: Poetic Language and the Strangeness of the Ordinary (1996). 21st-Century Modernism: The `New” Poetics (2002), and Unoriginal Genius: Poetry by Other Means in the New Century (2010).

About the Editor

David Jonathan Y. Bayot is Associate Professor of Literature at De La Salle University. His latest publication as the editor of De La Salle University’s Critics in Conversation series is Catherine Belsey in Conversation (2013).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface
Marjorie Perloff

Introduction – Via Marjorie Perloff: Sideroads along a Critical Highway
David Jonathan Y. Bayot

Part I: The Critic

    1. Becoming a Critic: An Academic Memoir

 

    1. A Critic of the Other Tradition
      Interview with Hélène Aji and Antoine Cazé

 

  1. Marjorie Perloff On & Off the Page of Poetry
    Interview with Kristine Samson and Nikolaj Rønhede

 

Part II: A Poetics

 

    1. The Alter(ed) Ground of Poetry and Pedagogy
      Conversation with Charles Bernstein

 

    1. Mapping the New
      Interview with Rain Taxi Review of Books

 

    1. Modernism / Postmodernism? Will the Real Avant-garde Please Stand Up!
      Interview with Jeffrey Side

 

    1. (Un)Framing the other Tradition: On Ashbery and Others
      Interview with Grzegorz Jankowicz

 

    1. Robert Lowell, Now and Then
      Conversation with David Wojahn

 

    1. Futurism and Schism: Close Listening with Marjorie Perloff
      Interview with Charles Bernstein

 

    1. The Challenge of Language
      Interview with Enrique Mallen

 

    1. Conceptual Writing: A Modernist Issue
      Interview with Peter Nicholls

 

  1. Still Making It New: Marjorie Perloff in Manifesto Mode
    Interview with Ellef Prestsæter

 

Part III: To Praxis

 

    1. What is Poetry?
      Interview with Fulcrum

 

    1. On Evaluation in Poetry
      Dialogue with Robert von Hallberg

 

    1. Teaching Poetry in Translation: The Case for Bilingualism

 

    1. The Internet Moment in the Life of Publishing
      Interview with Front Porch Magazine

 

  1. The Intellectual in the 21st Century

 

Interviewers

Index of Names