JML 45.4 (Summer 2022) "The Matter of Poetry" is LIVE!

JML 45.4 (Summer 2022) on the theme "The Matter of Poetry" is now available on Project Muse at https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/48858.

Content includes:

Modernist renegotiations 

Espen Grønlie

Linguistic Relativism and Poetry: Ezra Pound’s Reading of Lucien Lévy-Bruhl as a Key to Ernest Fenollosa’s The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry

Tiao Wang and Ronald Schleifer

Ezra Pound and Mang Ke (芒克): Image, Affect, and Consumerism in Western and Chinese Modernism

Joseph Pizza

“All Aboard for Natchez, Cairo, and St. Louis”: Minstrelsy and Conversion in T.S. Eliot’s Ash-Wednesday

Nathaniel Mills

John Berryman’s Blackface Jokes: The Insights of Literary Failure 

Harold Schweizer

On Gentleness: Rilke’s Hands

Tradition, lamentation, and individual talent

Wit Pietrzak

“Her songs are raised like fists”: The Caoineadh Tradition in Paul Muldoon’s Lamentations 

Dalia Bolotnikov Mazur

Charles Reznikoff's Testimony of the Dead

Stefania Heim

“I for i and i for I”: Susan Howe’s That This and the Relational Self 

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Marty Cain

Frank Stanford’s Rural Avant-Garde: Infrastructure, Mediation, and Poetic Community

Nate Mickelson

Composing in the Future Particular: Reading CAConrad’s (Soma)tics

Review

Stefania Heim

The Matter of Poetry