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J. Peter Moore

J. Peter Moore is a literary critic, poet, and editor. His scholarly project, Other Than a Citizen: Vernacular Poetics in Postwar America, examines the work of avant-garde poets who turned to the anonymous practices of everyday life to find a model for countering the institutional regimentation of the postwar social world. He is the author of two poetry collections, Southern Colortype (Three Count Pour, 2013) and Zippers and Jeans (selva oscura, 2017), and the editor and co-founder of Lute & Drum: An Online Arts Quarterly. He is Clinical Assistant Professor in the Honors College at Purdue University.

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Nathaniel Mackey’s Epic Poem

by J. Peter Moore June 19, 2021June 17, 2021

Memories appear and disappear in a meditative work that feels as if it could stop at any moment or continue on forever.

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Erudite Poems That Playfully Rework the Conventions of Life Writing

by J. Peter Moore August 22, 2020November 5, 2020

German writer Heinrich von Kleist serves as a starting point for Matthew Fink’s exploration of the Western canon’s gossipy underside.

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The Fertilizing Power of Funk

by J. Peter Moore May 30, 2020May 29, 2020

Fred Moten’s innovative poems investigate the fugitive philosophy of Black sound.

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Rhythm, Divination, and Naming in Jay Wright’s Poetry

by J. Peter Moore January 4, 2020January 7, 2020

In Wright’s poems the name of the absolute is scrawled in a host of esoteric tongues.

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Poems About Unending Displacement and Mobility

by J. Peter Moore May 5, 2019May 3, 2019

Magdalena Zurawski seeks to store and preserve such experiences in The Tiniest Muzzle Sings Songs of Freedom

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Geoffrey O’Brien’s Poetics of Compression

by J. Peter Moore January 13, 2019January 14, 2019

The poet casts himself as an escapist reader, amassing archives to be condensed as paraphrase.

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