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Juliana Spahr's remarkable poetic mind is the refractive prism of her useful and inspiring criticism. This book makes a strong case for the long-standing American tradition of reading as a form of liberation, but it makes it in terms appropriate to Spahr's vision of a utopian democracy of active readers in today's complex cultural environments. Her engagements with Stein, Hejinian, Andrews, Mullen, and Cha enact an informed self-invention of meaning that is both richly nuanced model of agency and constructive affirmation for our inextricably intertwined poly-ethnic-racial-lingual world. --Joan Retallack, Bard College

""Juliana Spahr's remarkable poetic mind is the refractive prism of her useful and inspiring criticism. This book makes a strong case for the long-standing American tradition of reading as a form of liberation, but it makes it in terms appropriate to Spahr's vision of a utopian democracy of active readers in today's complex cultural environments. Her engagements with Stein, Hejinian, Andrews, Mullen, and Cha enact an informed self-invention of meaning that is both richly nuanced model of agency and constructive affirmation for our inextricably intertwined poly-ethnic-racial-lingual world.""--Joan Retallack, Bard College

Juliana Spahr's remarkable poetic mind is the refractive prism of her useful and inspiring criticism. This book makes a strong case for the long-standing American tradition of reading as a form of liberation, but it makes it in terms appropriate to Spahr's vision of a utopian democracy of active readers in today's complex cultural environments. Her engagements with Stein, Hejinian, Andrews, Mullen, and Cha enact an informed self-invention of meaning that is both richly nuanced model of agency and constructive affirmation for our inextricably intertwined poly-ethnic-racial-lingual world. Joan Retallack, Bard College

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Juliana Spahr is assistant professor at the University of Hawaii, Manoa. She edits the journal Chain with Jena Osman.

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