These essays reconsider the role historical and cultural change in the evolution of 20th-century poetry and poetics. Perloff first looks at broad concerns - the evolution and contradictions of the…

An earlier version of chapter 1 appeared as Avant-Garde in a Different Key: Karl Kraus’s The Last Days of Mankind, Critical Inquiry 40, no. 2 (Winter 2014): 311-38.

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…

A collection of 19 essays on contemporary American poetry and poetics, published as journal articles between 1975 and 1989. They are written from the perspective of an active poet for…

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…

Examines the representation and staging of chance in literature through the work of the French writer Georges Perec. This book explores the ways in which Perec’s texts exploit the possibilities…

Examines the representation and staging of chance in literature through the work of the French writer Georges Perec. This book explores the ways in which Perec’s texts exploit the possibilities…

Reading and rewriting our understanding of the poetics of modernism and postmodernism, this work identifies a counter-tradition in twentieth-century poetry. It traces a continuity of thought and practice through the…