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 II focuses on the second half of her prolific career, showcasing reviews from 1995 through her 2017 reconsiderations of Jonathan Culler's theory of the lyric and William Empson's classic Seven Types of Ambiguity. In this volume Perloff provides insight into the twenty-first-century literary landscape, from revaluations of its leading poets and translations of European poetry from Goethe to the Brazilian Noigandres group and interart studies and performance art. Key issues of the past few decades, such as the controversy over the role and function of poetry anthologies, receive extended treatment, and Perloff frequently voices a minority view, as in the case of the acclaimed British poet Philip Larkin.

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Reviews

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

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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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