{"title":"From Blind to Blinding: Saturated Phenomena and the Speculative Lyric of the Invisible in Andrew Joron’s Poetry","authors":"Ming-Qian Ma","doi":"10.51865/jlsl.2022.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51865/jlsl.2022.04","url":null,"abstract":"This essay presents a critical reading of Andrew Joron’s speculative oeuvre from a phenomenological standpoint. Proceeding from the poet’s cosmic perspectives, it focuses on the central issue of language in relation to the emergence of meaning and the world. Through a close reading of both Joron’s poetry and poetics, this essay demonstrates his conceptual affinity with the work of contemporary French philosopher Jean-Luc Marion, arguing that both Joron’s poetry and Marion’s phenomenology of givenness postulate an emergence of meaning and the world that is absolutely unconditioned and unconditional, an emergence characterized by an intuitively blinding richness that saturates the phenomenon over and beyond any limit and, hence, makes the phenomenon invisible.","PeriodicalId":40259,"journal":{"name":"Word and Text-A Journal of Literary Studies and Linguistics","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79761496","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On 21st-Century Poetry and Poetics","authors":"A. Codrescu, R. Vancu, Laurent Milesi","doi":"10.51865/jlsl.2022.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51865/jlsl.2022.10","url":null,"abstract":"This academic interview with contemporary poet Andrei Codrescu (dating July 2022) examines several contemporary meanings of 21st-century poetry and poetics, the relevance of American poetry schools that dominated the latter half of the 20th century, effects of this post-humanistic turn on the poetic discourse(s). It also whether the public condemnation of Russian culture in general is justified or not in the aftermath of the Russian aggression against Ukraine.","PeriodicalId":40259,"journal":{"name":"Word and Text-A Journal of Literary Studies and Linguistics","volume":"60 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75641474","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Bodies We Inhabit: Reclaiming Power in the Poetry of Melissa Lozada-Oliva and Olivia Gatwood","authors":"Andrada Yunusoğlu","doi":"10.51865/jlsl.2022.09","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51865/jlsl.2022.09","url":null,"abstract":"In this study I shall analyse peluda (2017) by Melissa Lozada-Oliva, and New American Best Friend (2017) and Life of the Party (2019) by Olivia Gatwood, focusing on how feminism and confessional poetry are used as means of empowerment and awareness for non-conforming identities. I shall analyse the most recurrent motifs and themes used by both poets in conjunction with feminist theory, highlighting the relationship between female identity and text. Furthermore, I shall describe how Melissa Lozada-Oliva and Olivia Gatwood reclaim their identity, language and discourse throughout the aforementioned books. Moreover, I shall also clarify why confessional poetry and the use of ‘I’ is a political act/choice for feminist poets. Without further ado, in this study I aim to showcase how the political and social issues influence the literary world, contributing to a more inclusive idea of a literary canon.","PeriodicalId":40259,"journal":{"name":"Word and Text-A Journal of Literary Studies and Linguistics","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88519021","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Omega Machine","authors":"Felix Bernstein","doi":"10.51865/jlsl.2022.05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51865/jlsl.2022.05","url":null,"abstract":"The following is the script for a performance developed in tandem with artist and performer Gabe Rubin and painter Jacqueline Humphries for her show jHΩ1:) at Wexner Center for the Arts in October 2021. Humphries’s work blurs the line between the painterly expression and the automated simulacrum. Her paintings in this show included 3D printed blacklight flat sculptures that resemble paintings that use as a base layer text encoded (ASCII) versions of earlier paintings with novel features palimpsestically overwriting them, such as Greek letters, Möbius strips, emoticons, and brand names. Our script ties together Humphries’s innovative practice with debates regarding the relative indeterminacy of the subject in comparison to the algorithm and artificial intelligence – debates which are linked to related questions as to the possibility of chance and spontaneity within seemingly closed discourses such as those interpreted by psychoanalysis, discourses famously encoded by Jacques Lacan into algorithms – and psychoanalysis itself. For the event, we invented a character for Gabe Rubin named Absinthe Omega, a brand ambassador for automated painting, to serve as a queer figure who might dramatize these issues while also fading into and out of the ground of painting itself as if they were a kind of subjectile substrate to these antinomic debates.","PeriodicalId":40259,"journal":{"name":"Word and Text-A Journal of Literary Studies and Linguistics","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81881137","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘the ghosts who don’t know what year it is’: A Review of Tracy K. Smith (ed.), The Best American Poetry 2021, New York: Scribner Poetry, 2021","authors":"Philip Coleman","doi":"10.51865/jlsl.2022.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51865/jlsl.2022.12","url":null,"abstract":"This is a review article that discusses Tracy K. Smith (ed.), The Best American Poetry 2021, New York: Scribner Poetry, 2021.","PeriodicalId":40259,"journal":{"name":"Word and Text-A Journal of Literary Studies and Linguistics","volume":"3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80179441","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"These Feelings of Futurelessness: Peter Gizzi’s Now It’s Dark","authors":"Daniel Katz","doi":"10.51865/jlsl.2022.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51865/jlsl.2022.03","url":null,"abstract":"This essay examines Peter Gizzi’s book Now It’s Dark under various optics. To begin, the focus is on the book’s intricate construction as an extended, dialogic work, rather than simply a collection of poems. Attention is paid to the complex structural links and divergences between the book’s various sections, and how Gizzi deploys them to displace and complicate traditional elements of the lyric, not least lyric temporality. The analysis of temporality which follows also allows Gizzi’s work to be placed in the context of important modernist and proto-modernist interlocutors, such as Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, William Carlos Williams and Wallace Stevens. Special attention is devoted to how Gizzi’s work can be seen to intervene in and deepen the unlikely dialogue between the latter two, by way of an investigation of Natalia Cecire’s concept of ‘contact’ and Gizzi’s own trope of auto-ethnography. To conclude, the essay examines how Gizzi’s poetic working through of mourning, elegy and the problem of pastness links to our present historical moment more generally.","PeriodicalId":40259,"journal":{"name":"Word and Text-A Journal of Literary Studies and Linguistics","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90907805","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘A Certain Noise’: Approaching the ‘Music of Poetry’","authors":"Jed Rasula","doi":"10.51865/jlsl.2022.02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51865/jlsl.2022.02","url":null,"abstract":"This article considers T. S. Eliot’s preoccupation with ‘the music of poetry’, a subject he addressed throughout his career. It was a certain ‘music’ to which the first readers of The Waste Land responded in the poem. This music, I argue, is not a matter of melodious sounds or acoustic mimicry. Rather, it is to be discerned in ‘a certain noise’ (Joseph Brodsky’s phrase), an underlying pulse. In order to examine this rhythmic prompt, I look at the graphic manifestations of another poet, Henri Michaux, who wrote lines of poetry and, in equal abundance, drew and painted maelstroms of lines that often share the page with the poems. These graffiti-like emanations provide us with a visual rendering of the ‘music of poetry’.","PeriodicalId":40259,"journal":{"name":"Word and Text-A Journal of Literary Studies and Linguistics","volume":"44 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83712506","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The People Are (Still) Missing: Bhanu Kapil’s How to Wash a Heart and the Problem of Minor Literature Today","authors":"Jason Skeet","doi":"10.51865/jlsl.2022.06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51865/jlsl.2022.06","url":null,"abstract":"In Anti-Oedipus, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari proclaim the ‘productive use of the literary machine’ with the aim to extract from the text its ‘revolutionary force’ – their book on Kafka, in which the concept of minor literature is put forward, is their experiment in doing this. The premise of this article is that Bhanu Kapil’s book-length poem How to Wash a Heart provides an apt point of reference for thinking through the problem of minor literature today. Kapil’s work is part of a significant development within contemporary poetry and poetics, writing informed by and building on postcolonial and feminist critiques of humanism and its encoded whiteness. In the light of Kapil’s work, the three characteristics of minor literature identified by Deleuze and Guattari are examined: the deterritorialisation of language; the connection of the individual to a political immediacy; and the collective assemblage of enunciation.","PeriodicalId":40259,"journal":{"name":"Word and Text-A Journal of Literary Studies and Linguistics","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82077671","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘Committing Poetry’: A Review of Timothy Yu (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Twenty-First-Century American Poetry, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021,ISBN 978-1-108-48209-7 Hardback, ISBN 978-1-108-74195-8 Paperback, xix + 246 pages","authors":"Laurent Milesi, A. Ionescu","doi":"10.51865/jlsl.2022.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51865/jlsl.2022.13","url":null,"abstract":"This is a review article that discusses Timothy Yu (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Twenty-First-Century American Poetry, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021.","PeriodicalId":40259,"journal":{"name":"Word and Text-A Journal of Literary Studies and Linguistics","volume":"44 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85339353","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Trauma, Affect, Memory and 21st-Century Poetry","authors":"Cristina Bejan, A. Ionescu","doi":"10.51865/jlsl.2022.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51865/jlsl.2022.11","url":null,"abstract":"This interview with contemporary poet and historian Cristina A. Bejan, conducted over email, examines several contemporary meanings of 21st-century poetry through a personal lens. The interview starts from Bejan’s academic work and continues with her creative work, focusing on her ‘spoken word’ in the volume Green Horses on the Wall, published in 2020 and translated in Romanian this year. Notions such as memory, trauma, affect that represent the core of Bejan’s poetry are explained by the poet in relation to her poetics.","PeriodicalId":40259,"journal":{"name":"Word and Text-A Journal of Literary Studies and Linguistics","volume":"161 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86426451","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}