My scholarship, reviews, and multi-media presentations are collected in a manuscript called Poetry in Spacetime with texts listed below. Creative non-fiction is collected in a manuscript called The Enormous Present. Some links connect to complete text in PDF, online equivalent, or visual artifact.
Poetry in Spacetime: Essays, Reviews, & Language Acts
Ashbery & Associates
John Ashbery, Ann Lauterbach, Occasionalism, The Missouri Flood of 1993, Private Arts, 1994
The Way the Eye Moves
Ralph J. Mills, Objectivism, Private Arts, 1994
Writing on Language Reading: An Essay in Five Fits
Language Writing & Gnosticism, Jack Spicer, William Fuller, Hermeticism, Discovery of Roman Jakobson on Spicer, Private Arts, 1995
Conference on the Left/Conference on the Right
HTML essay/review of conferences “Assembling Alternatives” (avant-garde writing) and “Maintaining Momentum” (school-to-work), Electronic Book Review, 1996
The Shorter Poems of John Matthias
John Matthias, Transology, Foucault, Word Play Place, 1998
Logicum-Poesis in Stevens, Ashbery, Lauterbach
Set theory, Wallace Stevens, John Ashbery, Ann Lauterbach, 20th Century Literature Conference, 1999
Matthias at the Millennium
John Matthias, Italo Calvino, Samizdat, 2000
Poetry and Hyperform
Barrett Watten, Susan Howe, Lisa Robertson, C.S. Peirce, Teresa D. Laurentis, Fredrick Jameson, 20th Century Literature Conference, 2000
Language Acts: Poetry in Spacetime
Principles of Language Acts, Joseph Beuys, hearing and perception, &NOW, 2004
Code-A-Cell: A Narrative
Language Acts, Human Genome Project as writing prompt, Genophonics, unpublished, 2005
Visualizing Spacetime
Edward Tufte, On Kuwara, Visuo-motor operations, &NOW, 2006
Billy Collins Meet Theodore Adorno
Theodore Adorno, Billy Collins, poetry and drama, Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900, 2007
Seeing the Novel in the 21st Century
Steve Tomasula’s Book of Portraiture, Foucault, discourses, technology, Electronic Book Review, 2007
The Birth of the Slam and the Future of Language Writing
Jürgen Habermas, The Grand Piano, Worker-writers vs the Partisan Review crowd, the Birth of the Poetry Slam, Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900, 2008
Phidias, Heidegger, Adorno
Settling scores from Conference on Literature and Culture, Phidias, the Phi ratio, Martin Heidegger, Theodore Adorno, &NOW, 2008
Ronald Johnson, Saccadic eye movements, open form poetry, John Milton, theories of perception and consciousness, animal experimentation, &NOW, 2009
Anatomy of a Crow’s Skeleton
Poetry of Seido Ray Ronci, Zen Buddhism, Koans, Ryokan, Ikkyu, Review Revue, 2009.
Entropes in Poetry
Elegy and the second law of thermodynamics, Christian Bök’s Xenotext, Threnody, Information Theory, Emily Dickinson, &NOW, 2018
Byt and Beyond in The Manager
Richard Berengarten, Martin Heidegger, Roman Jakobson’s concept of “byt,” Managing The Manager, 2019
Orgone Grinding and Its Discontents: The Poetry of Frank Rogaczewski
Frank Rogaczewski, Wilhelm Reich, Karl Marx, Political Poetry, Thomas McGrath, Notre Dame Review, 2019
A Survey of Michael Anania’s Poetry
Michael Anania, Geomatics, Wittgenstein, Kandinsky, New York School, Albers, From the Word to the Place, 2021
Positive and Negative Capabilities: I Ching & the Poet
Richard Berengarten, I Ching, International Poetry, Eastern Philosophy and math, Keats, Combinatorics, Essays on Changing, forthcoming
The Enormous Presence: Creative Non-fiction
A Few Missouri Links in the Great Chain of Being
Meditation on the Great Chain of Being by putting a Missouri hike in cosmic perspective, unpublished, 2001
Seashells by the Seashore
Meditation on fatherhood, taxonomy, Wordsworth, and the sea, Good Men Project, 2012
China and its Others
Account of trip to China as member of a Missouri education delegation, with comments on Li Po, Do Fu, Mao, and the Monkey King, unpublished, 2002
An Old West Diptych
Trip out west with family and encountering Custer’s Last Stand, snakes, Bighorn Mountains, the Badlands, The Gettysburg Review, 2005
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