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Blazing Stadium 8, 2021
This paper interprets Robert Duncan’s conception of poetic form as the rhythm of awareness of the... more This paper interprets Robert Duncan’s conception of poetic form as the rhythm of awareness of the meaning of everything. Starting with Duncan’s engagement with Ezra Pound’s concept of the tone leading of vowels, the paper progresses to Duncan’s critique of tone leading, and reconceives poetic materiality in order to propose a rapprochement of tone- and awareness-based composition techniques. The paper demonstrates Duncan’s preoccupation with the entanglement between poetry’s material and meaningful dimensions in an extended close reading of the first section of “A Poem Beginning with a Line by Pindar.” The paper interprets Duncan’s understanding of the concepts of awareness and meaning in terms of his metaphysics of originary disresemblance.
Emerging Possibilities, 2020
This essay identifies a tradition of American poets for whom metaphysical inquiry is the conditio... more This essay identifies a tradition of American poets for whom metaphysical inquiry is the condition of possibility of vital poetic form. The essay further considers ways in which such poets' social politics may undercut such inquiry, and thus such form. The essay meditates on how, in Plato's late dialogue the Sophist, nonbeing and untruth in turn constitute the conditions of possibility of metaphysical inquiry. The essay uses this dark metaphysics of the Sophist to frame the differences between the metaphysical visions and thus aesthetics of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Gertrude Stein on the one hand, and Fred Moten on the other.
Jacket2.org, 2019
A speculative review of two volumes: the Robert Duncan / Charles Olson correspondence and Duncan'... more A speculative review of two volumes: the Robert Duncan / Charles Olson correspondence and Duncan's lectures on Olson.
Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, 2017
This article investigates relations between the different concepts of difference and dialogic tex... more This article investigates relations between the different concepts of difference and dialogic textual environment of Plato's Sophist.
Emily Dickinson perceived a symbiosis between language and being, thereby revising the Christian ... more Emily Dickinson perceived a symbiosis between language and being, thereby revising the Christian apophatic theology of her day and the Eastern philosophy to which she was exposed through transcendentalism. This paper proposes Theravada Buddhism, of which the poet was unaware, as the most illuminating comparative paradigm for her theory of language.
Blazing Stadium 8, 2021
This paper interprets Robert Duncan’s conception of poetic form as the rhythm of awareness of the... more This paper interprets Robert Duncan’s conception of poetic form as the rhythm of awareness of the meaning of everything. Starting with Duncan’s engagement with Ezra Pound’s concept of the tone leading of vowels, the paper progresses to Duncan’s critique of tone leading, and reconceives poetic materiality in order to propose a rapprochement of tone- and awareness-based composition techniques. The paper demonstrates Duncan’s preoccupation with the entanglement between poetry’s material and meaningful dimensions in an extended close reading of the first section of “A Poem Beginning with a Line by Pindar.” The paper interprets Duncan’s understanding of the concepts of awareness and meaning in terms of his metaphysics of originary disresemblance.
Emerging Possibilities, 2020
This essay identifies a tradition of American poets for whom metaphysical inquiry is the conditio... more This essay identifies a tradition of American poets for whom metaphysical inquiry is the condition of possibility of vital poetic form. The essay further considers ways in which such poets' social politics may undercut such inquiry, and thus such form. The essay meditates on how, in Plato's late dialogue the Sophist, nonbeing and untruth in turn constitute the conditions of possibility of metaphysical inquiry. The essay uses this dark metaphysics of the Sophist to frame the differences between the metaphysical visions and thus aesthetics of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Gertrude Stein on the one hand, and Fred Moten on the other.
Jacket2.org, 2019
A speculative review of two volumes: the Robert Duncan / Charles Olson correspondence and Duncan'... more A speculative review of two volumes: the Robert Duncan / Charles Olson correspondence and Duncan's lectures on Olson.
Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, 2017
This article investigates relations between the different concepts of difference and dialogic tex... more This article investigates relations between the different concepts of difference and dialogic textual environment of Plato's Sophist.
Emily Dickinson perceived a symbiosis between language and being, thereby revising the Christian ... more Emily Dickinson perceived a symbiosis between language and being, thereby revising the Christian apophatic theology of her day and the Eastern philosophy to which she was exposed through transcendentalism. This paper proposes Theravada Buddhism, of which the poet was unaware, as the most illuminating comparative paradigm for her theory of language.