Marjorie Perloff Book order

Esteemed literary critic Marjorie Perloff reconsiders the nature of the poetic, examining its visual, grammatical, and sound components.

Marjorie Perloff identifies and explores the aesthetic world that emerged from the rubble of Vienna and other former Habsburg territories--an Austro- Modernism that produced a major body of drama, fiction, poetry, and autobiography.

Explores a new development in contemporary poetry: the repurposing of other people's words in order to make new works, by framing, citing, and recycling already existing phrases, sentences, and even full texts. This book concludes with a discussion of Kenneth Goldsmith's conceptualist book Traffic.

Focusing on the immersive experience of poetry, the book emphasizes the importance of reading poems meticulously, appreciating each word and line. Marjorie Perloff offers a scholarly yet accessible exploration that celebrates the joys of poetic texts while advocating for the value of diversity in interpretation. The work is both thought-provoking and enlightening, inviting readers to engage deeply with the nuances of poetry.

This examination of the flourishing of Futurist aesthetics in European art and literature of the twentieth century, offers considerations of futurist work from Russia to Italy.

A fascinating memoir of refugee flight and survival, intellectual yet highly personal, by one America's eminent literary critics.

Marjorie Perloff, critic of 20th-century poetry, argues that Wittgenstein speaks to poets because he provides a way out of the impasse of high versus low discourse, demonstrating the inescapable strangeness of ordinary language.

Previously known as an art-world figure, but now regarded as an important poet, Frank O'Hara is examined in this study. It traces the poet's French connection and the influence of the visual arts on his work. This edition includes a new introduction with a reconsideration of O'Hara's lyric.

Consisting of studies in the poetry of the Pound tradition, this book is a classic study of poetic form by an expert in contemporary criticism.