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        LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry

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        MEMORY

        MEMORY

        MEMORY

        by Dorothea Lasky

        ISBN: 9781635902594

        Publisher: Semiotext(e)

        Pub Date: November 4, 2025

        A poet’s spacious exploration of time, memory, and art, in homage to Bernadette Mayer.
        Other Influences

        Other Influences

        Other Influences

        An Untold History of Feminist Avant-Garde Poetry

        Edited by Marcella Durand and Jennifer Firestone

        ISBN: 9780262049283

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: October 29, 2024

        A compelling collection of original essays on influence that restore a feminist avant-garde that includes women of color, queer, and trans women.
        The Spider’s Thread

        The Spider's Thread

        The Spider's Thread

        Metaphor in Mind, Brain, and Poetry

        by Keith J. Holyoak

        ISBN: 9780262551472

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: March 12, 2024

        An examination of metaphor in poetry as a microcosm of the human imagination—a way to understand the mechanisms of creativity.
        Wittgenstein’s Artillery

        Wittgenstein's Artillery

        Wittgenstein's Artillery

        Philosophy as Poetry

        by James C. Klagge

        ISBN: 9780262045834

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: August 3, 2021

        How Wittgenstein sought a more effective way of reaching his audience by a poetic style of doing philosophy.
        Total Expansion of the Letter

        Total Expansion of the Letter

        Total Expansion of the Letter

        Avant-Garde Art and Language After Mallarmé

        by Trevor Stark

        ISBN: 9780262043717

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: May 26, 2020

        How cubism and Dada radically reimagined the social nature of language, following the utopian poetic vision of Stéphane Mallarmé.
        A Frank O’Hara Notebook

        A Frank O’Hara Notebook

        A Frank O’Hara Notebook

        by Bill Berkson

        Introduction by Ron Padgett

        Afterword by Constance Lewallen

        Edited by Jordan Kantor

        ISBN: 9781949484014

        Publisher: no place press

        Pub Date: April 30, 2019

        A fascinating account of Frank O'Hara in the prime of his creative life in New York, told through notes, images, and poems by his friend Bill Berkson.
        Incurable

        Incurable

        Incurable

        The Haunted Writings of Lionel Johnson, the Decadent Era’s Dark Angel

        by Lionel P Johnson

        Edited by Nina Antonia

        ISBN: 9781907222627

        Publisher: Strange Attractor Press

        Pub Date: January 15, 2019

        Writings that shed new light on one of the most gifted, if reclusive, poets of thefin-de-siècle.
        Overwrite

        Overwrite

        Overwrite

        Ethics of Knowledge—Poetics of Existence

        by Armen Avanessian

        Translated by Nils F. Schott

        ISBN: 9783956791147

        Publisher: Sternberg Press

        Pub Date: April 7, 2017

        Like a Woman

        Like a Woman

        Like a Woman

        Essays, Readings, Poems

        by Quinn Latimer

        ISBN: 9783956793158

        Publisher: Sternberg Press

        Pub Date: April 7, 2017

        Body Sweats

        Body Sweats

        Body Sweats

        The Uncensored Writings of Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven

        by Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven

        Edited by Irene Gammel and Suzanne Zelazo

        ISBN: 9780262529754

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: October 7, 2016

        The first major collection of poetry written in English by the flabbergasting and flamboyant Baroness Elsa, “the first American Dada.”
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