Introduction
- 2005-2010: This Work Which is Not One
No Experience Necessary
Instinctual Ballast: Imitation and Creative Writing
On Sonnet Thought
Humor Anxiety
Allusion and Context in Contemporary American Poetry
Ed Roberson’s Inward Lyricism
Light in Nagasaki: Catherine McCarthy’s “We Walk On Jewels”
“Some Chant I’m Working At”
An Elegy for Dancing
- 2011-2015: Gravity, Images, and the Hand
On Nonconformists and Strange Gravity
The Emily Dickinsons
“A Lovely Finish I Have Seen”: Voice and Variorum in
Edgar Allan Poe & the Juke-Box
“Arranging, Deepening, Enchanting” : Catherine McCarthy’s
Flower Arranging
A Farm, Two Spiders, and
A Book of Luminous Things:
Czeslaw Milosz’s Affinity for the Image
Turning, Troping, Wresting: Michael Ryan’s “My Dream by
Henry James”
“Found Breath”: The Contemporary “Mainstream” Lyric
- 2015-2021: Voicing the Overplus
Prosopopoeia: The Throwing of a Voice
“Velvety Velour” and Other Sonnet Textures in Gwendolyn Brooks’s “the children of the poor”
“Cinnamon. Eyeshadow. Dove”: Considering Jean Valentine (1934-2020)
On Ghosts and the Overplus