Marjorie Perloff

Marjorie Perloff (1931–2024) was a prominent poetry scholar and critic and Sadie D. Patek Professor Emerita of Humanities at Stanford University.

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

On reading outside the university.

  • Marjorie Perloff
  • Johanna Winant

John Ashbery: Staying, in Motion

Remembering John Ashbery.

  • Marjorie Perloff

On the Limits of Binary Thinking

Final repsonse: Why does any of this matter?

  • Marjorie Perloff

Poetry on the Brink: Reinventing the Lyric

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

  • Marjorie Perloff
with responses from
  • Annie Finch
  • Cathy Park Hong
  • Dan Beachy-Quick
  • Katie Degentesh
  • Robert Archambeau
  • Lytton Smith
  • Noah Eli Gordon
  • Evie Shockley
  • Rebecca Wolff
  • Ange Mlinko
  • Dorothea Lasky
  • Anthony Madrid
  • Sandra Lim
  • Samuel Amadon
  • Matthew Zapruder
  • DeSales Harrison
  • Stephanie Burt
  • Maureen N. McLane

Over the Last Limit

Resurrecting Vladimir Mayakovsky

  • Marjorie Perloff

A Poet’s Hope

  • Marjorie Perloff

A Poet’s Hope

On the work of Paul Celan.

  • 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

Visionary Company

Bloom is perfectly aware of the limitations of his chosen texts.

  • Marjorie Perloff

Marjorie Perloff Replies

  • Marjorie Perloff

In Search of the Authentic Other

The Araki Yasusada “hoax” and what it reveals about the politics of poetic identity.

  • Marjorie Perloff
with responses from
  • Charles Simic
  • Hosea Hirata
  • John Bradley
  • Eliot Weinberger
  • Stephen Owen
  • Greg Glazner & Jon Davis
  • Juliana Chang & Walter K. Lew & Tan Lin & Eileen Tabios & John Yau
  • Arthur Vogelsang

In Search of the Authentic Other

The Araki Yasusada "hoax" and what it reveals about the politics of poetic identity.

  • Marjorie Perloff
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