Poetry and Poetry Criticism

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Your Historical Loveliness Knows No Bounds

Form, Futurity, and Documentary Desire

By Wendy Xu
Subjects: Writing, Fiction, Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism
Series: Poets on Poetry

Pushing the boundaries of what poetry can hold

Dispatches from the Land of Erasure

Essays and Conversations

By Philip Metres
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Essay and Interview
Series: Poets on Poetry

Resistance through writing

A Companion to Apollonius of Rhodes

Edited by Ruth Scodel
Subjects: Classical Studies, Greek, Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Reference

A complementary text to the Greek poet of Argonautica

Nothingism

Poetry at the End of Print Culture

By Jason Schneiderman
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Essay and Interview
Series: Poets on Poetry

Exploring the form and significance of poetry in a digital age

The Imaginary Present

Essays in Quantum Poetics

By Amy Catanzano
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Writing, Essay and Interview
Series: Poets on Poetry

Exploring the questions of the universe through poetry and science

Radical Poetics

Essays on Literature & Culture

By Khadijah Queen
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, American Literature
Series: Poets on Poetry

Expanding theoretical practice to return radicality to its original meaning from the Latin—forming a root

Geographies of Relation

Diasporas and Borderlands in the Americas

By Theresa Delgadillo
Subjects: Latinx Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature, Literary Criticism and Theory, 20th Century Literature, Latin American Studies, American Studies, Theater and Performance, Poetry and Poetry Criticism

How diaspora and borderlands subjects from across the Americas have represented and performed their interrelationship

How to Draw a Circle

On Reading and Writing

By Dan Beachy-Quick
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Essay and Interview, American Literature
Series: Poets on Poetry

An examination of what binds poetic endeavor into a singular, shining whole

Joy (Or Something Darker, but Like It)

poetry & parenting

By Nathaniel Perry
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Essay and Interview
Series: Poets on Poetry

Thinking about parenting through the lens of poetry

Ghosts and the Overplus

Reading Poetry in the Twenty-First Century

By Christina Pugh
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Modern Literature
Series: Poets on Poetry

Celebrating the voices, current and past, that surface in lyric poetry

The Imaginative Vision of Abdilatif Abdalla’s Voice of Agony

Poems Translated by Ken Walibora Waliaula

By Abdilatif Abdalla
Edited by Annmarie Drury
Subjects: African Studies, Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism
Series: African Perspectives

First English literary translation of Abdilatif Abadalla’s influential Voice of Agony

Poetry, History, Memory

Wang Jingwei and China in Dark Times

By Zhiyi Yang
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, History, Chinese History

The first comprehensive biography of  Wang Jingwei, a poet, politician, and the most controversial figure in modern Chinese history

To Go Into the Words

By Norman Finkelstein
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Essay and Interview, Writing
Series: Poets on Poetry

A critical look at transcendence and a radical delight with language

Tales of Dionysus

The Dionysiaca of Nonnus of Panopolis

By William Levitan & Stanley Lombardo
Subjects: Classical Studies, Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism

The first English verse translation of the Dionysiaca of Nonnus of Panopolis

Working Time

Essays on Poetry, Culture, and Travel

By Jane Miller
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Gender Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Cultural Studies
Series: Poets on Poetry

Essays that explore literature, art, and contemporary culture and their connections to time and place

A Beat Beyond

Selected Prose of Major Jackson

By Major Jackson
Edited by Amor Kohli
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Race and Ethnicity, American Literature
Series: Poets on Poetry

Foregrounding the possibilities of human song

From the Valley of Bronze Camels

A Primer, Some Lectures, & A Boondoggle on Poetry

By Jane Miller
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Literary Criticism and Theory, Cultural Studies
Series: Poets on Poetry

"What makes art 'modern' and what does 'urgent' mean now?"

Song-Poems from Xanadu

By J. Crump
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

Translated poems providing a survey of ch’ü poetry

The Glass House

The Life of Theodore Roethke

By Allan Seager
Subjects: Biography, Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, American Literature

The first detailed biography of this renowned American poet

On Burning Ground

Thirty Years of Thinking About Poetry

By Sandra Gilbert
Subjects: Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Literary Criticism and Theory, Writing
Series: Poets on Poetry

Collected Prose

By Robert Hayden
Edited by Frederick Glaysher
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, American Literature, African American Studies
Series: Poets on Poetry

A collection of essays on poetry and the experiences that influenced this poet

The Spiral of Memory

Interviews

By Joy Harjo
Edited by Laura Coltelli
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Gender Studies, Native American Studies, American Literature
Series: Poets on Poetry

Intimate, illuminating conversations with one of the most important voices in contemporary American poetry

The Passionate Spectator

Essays on Art and Poetry

By John Yau
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism
Series: Poets on Poetry

Insightful essays on art and poetry by the acclaimed writer, critic, and curator

The Matrix of Lyric Transformation

Poetic Modes and Self-Presentation in Early Chinese Pentasyllabic Poetry

By Zong-qi Cai & Zong-qi Cai
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

Traces one the most important genres in early Chinese literature through a series of modes connoting varying social milieus, from folk to literati

New Michigan Verse

By Burkland Carl Edwin
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism
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