Articles and Book Chapters
“‘Against the Speech
of Friends’: Amiri Baraka Sings the ‘White Friend
Blues.’” In Don’t
Ever Get Famous: Essays on New York Writing Beyond the ‘New
York School.’ Ed. Daniel Kane. (Dalkey
Archive Press, 2006).
“Crisis, Possibility, and
Pragmatism: Frank O’Hara’s Early Journal and William
James.” Fulcrum:
An Annual of Poetry and Aesthetics 5 (2006): 184-204.
“‘I
Want To Be At Least As Alive As the Vulgar’: Frank O’Hara’s
Poetry and the Cinema.” In The
Scene of My Selves:
New Work on New York School Poets, ed. Terence Diggory
and Stephen Paul Miller (National Poetry Foundation, 2001): 93-121.
“Auden
and the New York School Poets.” W. H. Auden
Society Newsletter 22(November 2001): 19-28. “Verse
vs. Verse” (feature article on Language poetry and the
academy). Lingua Franca (September 2000): 45-54.
“Frank O’Hara’s Translation Game.” Raritan 19.3 (Winter 2000): 144-161.
“‘Flowers that Mock the
Corse Beneath’: Shelley’s Adonais, Keats,
and Poetic Influence.” Keats-Shelley
Journal 48 (1999): 90-128.
Book reviews
Review of A Natural History
of Pragmatism, by Joan Richardson (Cambridge University Press).
Henry James Review 30.1 (Winter 2009): 87-90.
“Critiquing ‘La Vie
Quotidienne’: Contemporary Approaches the Everyday.”
Review of Everyday Life: Theories and Practices from Surrealism
to the Present, by Michael Sheringham (Oxford University
Press). Contemporary Literature 49.3 (Fall 2008): 476-487.
“‘The
Academy of the Future is Opening Its Doors’: Women Poets
and the New York School.” Review of Women, The New
York School, and Other True Abstractions, by Maggie Nelson
(University of Iowa Press). Jacket
35 (2008).
Review of Ashbery’s Forms
of Attention, by Andrew DuBois (U of Alabama Press).
South Atlantic Review (2008).
“‘History
Took Hold of My Throat.’” Review of The Afflicted
Girls, by Nicole Cooley. Common-Place (July
2004).
“‘Antimodern’
in a Time of Upheaval: Rereading African-American Culture in the
Sixties.” Review of Mercy, Mercy Me: African-American
Culture and the American Sixties, by James C. Hall.
Contemporary Literature (Fall 2003): 548-558.
“Precision
Poetry.” Review of The Poems of Marianne
Moore, ed. Grace Schulman. Newsday (Nov. 2,
2003): D32-3.
Review of The Cambridge Companion
to Keats, ed. Susan J. Wolfson. Keats-Shelley Journal
51 (2002): 205-7.
Review of Boss Cupid, by
Thom Gunn. Boston Review (October/November 2001).
Review
of New Addresses, by Kenneth Koch. Boston
Review (February/March 2001): 54.
Review of Selfwolf, by
Mark Halliday. Boston Review (October/November
2000): 61.
“Turning the Steep Corner
Into Childhood.” Review of Girls on the Run,
by John Ashbery. American Book Review 21.4 (May/June
2000), 23-4.
“Churning
Hymns into Fragments.” Review of The Lion
Bridge: Selected Poems 1971-1995, by Michael Palmer.
N.B.: New Books from the Reader’s Catalog (now-defunct
on-line book review journal, linked to New York Review of
Books website) (October 1998).
“Out
of the American Night.” Review of Letter to
an Imaginary Friend, by Thomas McGrath. N.B.: New Books
from the Reader’s Catalog (May 1998).
Essays in Reference
Books, Letters to the Editor, and Other Miscellaneous Publications
“Attention
Equals Life, Or Is Its Only Evidence.” Initiation Address,
Phi Beta Kappa, Florida State
University, April 19, 2009.
“Letter
to the Editor” (about Frank O’Hara’s death).
Poetry (September 2008).
“Amiri Baraka.”
Encyclopedia of the New York School Poets, ed. Terence
Diggory. (Facts-on-File, forthcoming, 2008).
“Translation and the New York
School.” Encyclopedia of the New York School Poets,
ed. Terence Diggory. (Facts-on-File, forthcoming, 2008).
“Marianne
Moore’s ‘Marriage.’” Encyclopedia
of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century, ed. Eric Haralson.
(Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 2001): 479-480.
“John
Ashbery.” Encyclopedia of American Poetry:
The Twentieth Century, ed. Eric Haralson. (Fitzroy Dearborn
Publishers, 2001): 24-25.
“Gerard Manley Hopkins.” World Poets, ed. Ron Padgett (Scribner’s, 2000): vol. 2, 1-11.
“Andrew Marvell.” World Poets, ed. Ron Padgett (Scribner’s, 2000): vol. 2, 155-164.
Contributor, Who’s Who in Twentieth-Century World Poetry, ed. Mark Willhardt (Routledge, 2000). Composed biographical entries for 28 poets, including Hart Crane, E. E. Cummings, Theodore Roethke, John Berryman, Sylvia Plath, Richard Wilbur, Lorine Niedecker, George Oppen, James Wright, Frank O’Hara, Amiri Baraka, Robert Creeley, Gary Snyder, Carolyn Forché, Charles Simic, Charles Bernstein, Robert Hass, Robert Pinsky, Lyn Hejinian, and Sharon Olds, among others.
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