Editors’ Preface for Paideuma 37

As part of our showcase of the new volume of Paideuma, here is our editors’ preface — more previews to come soon: For this special volume of Paideuma, we go back to our roots with an eighty-fifth birthday celebration of Mary de Rachewiltz, an important member of the scholarly community that gave rise to this [...]

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Announcing Paideuma 37

Hello everyone! The National Poetry Foundation blog has been quiet for a few months, as we have been working overtime in the preparation of two volumes of Paideuma. If both volumes appear this year, as we fully expect (and by “year” we mean the academic year, Fall 2010-Spring 2011), the journal will truly be caught [...]

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Editors’ Preface for Paideuma 36

The essays in this volume of Paideuma have been arranged chronologically by poet, beginning with two essays on Ezra Pound and continuing through H. D., Mary Barnard, and Charles Reznikoff, concluding with several figures associated with the post-war generations that first came to prominence in The New American Poetry. The chronological presentation is not entirely [...]

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Announcing Paideuma Volume 36

We are pleased to announce the publication of Paideuma Volume 36. To order, please visit our main website (here) or click on the Ordering tab of this blog. • CONTENTS Preface Essays Robert Stark, “‘Toils Obscure An’ A’ That’: Romantic and Celtic Influences in ‘Hilda’s Book’” Sean Pryor, “Particularly Dangerous Feats: The Difficult Reader of [...]

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Preview of Paideuma 36: Tony Brinkley and Joesph Arsenault

Tony Brinkley and Joseph Arsenault’s “‘This Is Where the Serpent Lives’: Wordsworthian Poetics and Contemporary American Poetry,” presents a complex application of Hegelian dialectic and Wordsworthian poetics onto the poetry of Wallace Stevens, Rosmarie Waldrop, Barbara Guest, and Alice Notley. Operating on destabilized terrain, Brinkley and Arsenault propose that deitic gestures found in Wordsworth are [...]

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Preview of Paideuma 36: Sarah Barnsley

Sarah Barnsley‘s article, “‘Sand Is the Beginning and the End / of Our Dominion’: Mary Barnard, H.D. and Imagism,” explores a poetics of history in the Imagist landscapes of these two poets. The article makes good use of the archive, offering unpublished work by Barnard for attentive reading. Using the metaphor of sand, “a substance [...]

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Preview of Paideuma 36: Patrick Barron

Patrick Barron‘s essay, “Unmasked Representations of Space in Edward Dorn’s ‘The Land Below’ and ‘Idaho Out,’” offers keen close readings of these poems in the larger discussion of the history, geography, and politics of the American West. Although “it can be quite problematic to apply theory to Dorn’s work,” as Barron admits, his application of [...]

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Preview of Paideuma 36: Sean Pryor

Sean Pryor‘s “Particularly Dangerous Feats: The Difficult Reader of the Difficult Late Cantos” explores the relationship between the reader and Ezra Pound’s late cantos. The article, which deals with the pedagogical concerns of Pound as expressed by The Cantos, naturally arose “from the always strange but stimulating experience of trying to teach Pound,” as Pryor [...]

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Preview of Paideuma 36: Aimee Pozorski

Aimee Pozorski’s essay, “Traumatic Survival and the Loss of a Child: Reznikoff’s Holocaust Revisited” grew out of her interdisciplinary work at Emory University from 1998-2003, where scholars from the Emory University Psychoanalytic Institute and the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences talked regularly with one another about trauma and traumatic history. As a humanities scholar [...]

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Preview of Paideuma 36: Kaplan Harris

Kaplan Harris‘s “Gender Performance, Performance Enhancement, and Poetry: Reading Ted Berrigan after Viagra” dives into Berrigan’s world of speed and sex, bringing new considerations to bear on The Sonnets and “Things to Do on Speed” via the historical archive and gender theory. Turning to print culture, Harris provides a new contextual framework for Berrigan’s world [...]

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