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Marjorie Perloff

Marjorie Perloff, Sadie D. Patek Professor Emerita of Humanities at Stanford University. Her most recent book is Edge of Irony: Modernism in the Shadow of the Habsburg Empire.

Articles

Letter to the Editors: “A Century of Serious Difficulty”

On reading outside the university.

Marjorie Perloff, Johanna Winant

John Ashbery: Staying, in Motion

Remembering John Ashbery
Marjorie Perloff

Over the Last Limit

Resurrecting Vladimir Mayakovsky.
Marjorie Perloff

A Poet’s Hope

Marjorie Perloff

A Poet’s Hope

Marjorie Perloff

Pound Ascendant

New collections of Ezra Pound's poetry. 
Marjorie Perloff

Happy World

What Lyn Hejinian's poetry tells us about chance, fortune, and pleasure.
Marjorie Perloff

In Defense of Poetry

Put the literature back into literary studies.
Marjorie Perloff

In Search of the Authentic Other

Marjorie Perloff

Forums

Poetry on the Brink: Reinventing the Lyric

Today’s poetry establishment commands polite respect but hardly enthusiasm and excitement.
Marjorie Perloff

Forum Responses

Response: On the Limits of Binary Thinking

Final repsonse: Why does any of this matter?
Marjorie Perloff

Response: Visionary Company

For years now, Harold Bloom has been voicing his despair about the state of literary studies in the United States, and here he again he takes the high ground, denouncing “the multiculturalists,...
Marjorie Perloff

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