ADDITIONAL READINGS

Anne Carson

THE MIRROR OF SIMPLE SOULS , Carson's Chamber Opera
Carson's citation for a MacArthur Fellowship
THE LIFE OF TOWNS, the text of a poem by Carson.
A review of Anne Carson's Men in the Off Hours, from the Village Voice Literary Supplement.
Geraldine McKenzie reviews Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red.
A review of Men in the Off Hours by Kate Moses.

Emily Dickinson

Complete Poems
The "Academy's" selection of Dickinson
Dickinson Electronic Archives
Uncommon Measures: Emily Dickinson's Subversive Prosody     
Metrical Hybridization: Prosodic Ambiguities As a Form of Social Dialogue      
Dickinson and the Masochistic Aesthetic      
The Revenge of Cato's Daughter: Dickinson's Masochism      

Lisa Jarnot

Lisa's Blog
Lisa Jarnot Interview
On Identity
Review of Black Dog Songs
Review of Ring of Fire

Certrude Stein

Gertrude Stein Interview
Gertrude Stein biography
Williams on Stein
Miriam Allen deFord attacks modernism's "cult of incomprehensibility"
Stein on doing nothing
Robert Creeley on reading difficult poetry, including Stein's
Stein, "A Very Valentine"
Stein, "Let Us Describe"
Sherwood Anderson on Stein
Gertrude Stein, from Tender Buttons: "Water Raining"
Gertrude Stein, "A long dress" from Tender Buttons
Robert Grenier on Tender Buttons
Stein, "Readings"
Gertrude Stein, "Is Dead" (1936)
Stein, on narrative
Stein, on textual movement
Stein on the noun (1935)
Stein, on composition
Stein, "Composition as Explanation" as read (and commented on) by Joan Retallack
Picasso's "Portrait of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler" (1910)
Stein, "If I Told Him" (A Completed Portrait of Pablo Picasso) (a transcription)
Marjorie Perloff discusses Stein on nouns and Stein's portraits (an mp3 file, excerpt from a 1999 discussion with English 88)
Picasso's portrait of Stein
Stein a naturalist?
Stein on "loving repeating"
Stein on writing clearly
Stein on "speaking english"
audio: Stein reading her "If I Told Him (A Completed Portrait of Pablo Picasso)"
W. G. Rogers on Stein: not what it is, but what it does
Wallace Fowlie on Stein: a contract between words and thought
Stein's review of Alfred Kreymborg's Troubador
Mark Van Doren's "First Glance," a review of the same book
Stein, "Any one doing something and standing"
Gertrude Stein on similarity & difference
Lyn Hejinian reads her own work through the influence of Stein
Gertrude Stein, "Tender Buttons" -- objects
Stein, "Reflections on the Atomic Bomb"
Gertrude Stein web site

EXPERIMENTS IN POETRY

Bernadette Mayer's Writing Experiments
Charles Bernstein"s Writing Experiments
Jonathan Mayhew's Writing Experiments (with apologies to Bernadette Mayer)