Memories appear and disappear in a meditative work that feels as if it could stop at any moment or continue on forever.
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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Erudite Poems That Playfully Rework the Conventions of Life Writing
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The Fertilizing Power of Funk
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
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
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Geoffrey O’Brien’s Poetics of Compression
The poet casts himself as an escapist reader, amassing archives to be condensed as paraphrase.