Reading Duncan Reading: Robert Duncan and the Poetics of Derivation

Contributor’s Notes

contributor’s notes j. p. craig is an assistant professor at Alabama State University. He holds a doctorate in contemporary North American poetry and poetics from the University of Iowa and an MFA in poetry from the University of Memphis. sarah e. ehlers is a PhD candidate in English at the University of Michigan, specializing in modern and contemporary poetry and U.S. literary radicalism. Her dissertation is entitled “Critical Conditions: Politics and the Death of TwentiethCentury American Poetry.” She has published in such journals as Against the Cur­ rent, Modern Language Quarterly, and Paideuma. george fragopoulos is assistant professor of English at Queensborough Community College, CUNY. His criticism, essays, and translations can be found online at The Quarterly Conversation, Words without Borders, and The Critical Flame. His translations of Manolis Anagnostakis’s poetry are forthcoming from Fairleigh Dickinson Press. stephen fredman is professor of English at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of Poet’s Prose: The Crisis in American Verse (1983, 1990), The Grounding of American Poetry: Charles Olson and the Emersonian Tradition (1993), A Menorah for Athena: Charles Reznikoff and the Jewish Dilemmas of Objectivist Poetry (2001), and Contextual Practice: Assemblage and the Erotic in Postwar Poetry and Art (2010). He has edited A Concise Companion to Twentieth-Century American Poetry (2005) and, with Steve McCaffery, Form, Power, and Person in Robert Creeley’s Life and Work (2010). ross hair is a lecturer in American studies at University of East Anglia and is the author of Ronald Johnson’s Modernist Collage Poetry (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010) and coeditor of Minting the Sun: A New Selection of Ted Walker’s Poetry (University of Chichester, 2010). He has also written on Lorine Niedecker, Jonathan Williams, Thomas A. Clark, and Ian Hamilton Finlay. catherine martin completed a PhD at the University of Sussex on twentiethcentury American poetry. Her research examines the relationship between mem- 266 Contributors ory and poetics, focusing in particular on the work of Ezra Pound, Robert Duncan, and Susan Howe. She has taught twentieth-century British, American, and Irish literature and literary theory at the University of Sussex and Royal Holloway, University of London. peter o’leary. Vocations to poetry and religion have committed Peter O’Leary to the pursuit of what Saint Bonaventure named an itinerarium mentis in deum, or the journey of the mind to God, with particular attention devoted to the mystagogicalinitiatic and the mytho-poetical. Luminous Epinoia, published by the Cultural Society , is his most recent book. He lives in Berwyn, Illinois, and teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and for the Committee on Creative Writing at the University of Chicago. clément oudart, a former Fulbright visiting scholar in the University at Buffalo ’s Poetry Collection (2005 6), received his PhD from the Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris in 2009. His dissertation, “The Metamorphosis of Modernism from H.D. to Robert Duncan: Toward a Poetics of Relation,” was awarded the university’s Dissertation Prize (Prix de thèse) and was published in French by the Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle in 2010. He is currently an assistant professor at the Department of English of the University of Toulouse Le Mirail, France. siobhán scarry teaches modernism and twentieth-century American poetry at the University of Victoria, British Columbia. She is currently completing her PhD with SUNY Buffalo; her dissertation-in-progress explores the ways in which poetries from Whitman and Dickinson up through the mid-twentieth century have engaged with and re-envisioned notions of community. Scholarly work from this project is slated to appear in Jacket 2 and Sagetrieb. Also a creative writer, Scarry has published work in Greensboro Review, jubilat, Mid-American Review, New Letters, P-Queue, Sentence: A Journal of Prose Poetics, and other journals. jeffrey twitchell-waas currently lives in Malta, edits the Z-site on the works of Louis Zukofsky (www.z-site.net), and occasionally translates from contemporary Chinese poetry. andy weaver has published or has forthcoming articles on John Cage, Fred Wah, Darren Wershler-Henry, and Steve McCaffery as well as articles on Robert Duncan. He teaches contemporary poetry and poetics at York University. He has also published several books of poetry, most recently gangson (NeWest, 2011). ...