Overview

One of our most important contemporary critics, Marjorie Perloff has been a widely published and influential reviewer, especially of poetry and poetics, for over fifty years. Circling the Canon, Volume I covers roughly the first half of Perloff's career, beginning with her first ever review, on Anthony Hecht's The Hard Hours. The reviews in this volume, culled from a wide range of scholarly journals, literary reviews, and national magazines, trace the evolution of poetry in the mid- to late twentieth century as well as the evolution of Perloff as a critic. Many of the authors whose works are reviewed in this volume are major figures, such as W. B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, Sylvia Plath, and Frank O'Hara. Others, including Mona Van Duyn and Richard Hugo, were widely praised in their day but are now all but forgotten. Still others--David Antin, Edward Dorn, or the Language poets--exemplify an avant-garde that was to come into its own.

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This collection is a record of one of the best and most influential critical minds in contemporary poetry and poetics. It is both timely and timeless. --Yunte Huang, author of Transpacific Imaginations: History, Literature, Counterpoetics

This collection is a record of one of the best and most influential critical minds in contemporary poetry and poetics. It is both timely and timeless. --Yunte Huang, author of Transpacific Imaginations: History, Literature, Counterpoetics A highly rewarding set of essay reviews, which covers a lot of literary poetic ground. --Clark Allison, Tears in the Fence

Author Information

Marjorie Perloff is the author and editor of twenty books, including Differentials: Poetry, Poetics, Pedagogy and 21st-Century Modernism: The New Poetics. She is a Sadie Dernham Patek Professor of Humanities emerita at Stanford University. David Jonathan Bayot is the coauthor or editor of twenty-two books, including Marjorie Perloff's Poetics in a New Key: Interviews and Essays and Deconstruction After All: Reflections and Conversations. He is the Go Kim Pah Professor of Chinese Literature at De La Salle University and the executive Publisher of De La Salle University Publishing House.

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