Reviews
Global Poetics: Reactive and Relational (on Jahan Ramazani’s Poetry in a Global Age; Walt Hunter’s Forms of a World: Contemporary Poetry and the Making of Globalization; and Édouard Glissant’s Treatise on the Whole-World, translated by Celia Britton)
The emergence of the term global poetics has had a belated beginning in the Anglophone world. Only recently have scholars, most of whom were trained at the University of Virginia, used this term to place poetry within a global frame. For much of the past two decades, debates surrounding what has been called “world literature” […]
Read MoreIN Winter 2021
Jay Wright’s new collection, The Prime Anniversary, begins with a wedding song for the lost. Borrowing from the Sapphic fragment ὦ καλή, ὦ χαρίεσσα (“o beautiful, o graceful”), its epigraph apostrophizes absence and begins a ceremony whose actors wait in the wings. Through the course of the work, the object of address becomes a variable […]
Read MoreIN Summer 2020
