This substantial set of dialogues gives readers a glimpse inside a master critic’s deeply informed critical practice, illuminating his intellectual touchstones.
Their exchanges address ecopoetics, the corporate university, the sheer volume of contemporary poetry, and more. These detailed conversations are with Evelyn Reilly, Leonard Schwartz, Tony Tost, Mike Chasar, Joel Bettridge, and Ming-Qian Ma. Wreading consists of two parts: an assortment of Rasula’s solo criticism and selected interviews and conversations with other poets and scholars. While this volume presents highlights from Rasula’s criticism, it also serves as a carefully assembled intellectual autobiography. Wreading: A Poetics of Awareness, or How Do We Know What We Know? is a collection of essays and interviews that reflects the breadth and diversity of his curiosity.
2016), and Acrobatic Modernism, from the Avant-Garde to Prehistory (forthcoming 2020, Oxford U.P.).A diverse collection of essays and interviews on reading, teaching, and writing poetry from a preeminent critic and scholar Jed Rasula is a distinguished scholar of avant-garde poetics, noted for his erudition, intellectual range, and critical independence. Rasula’s recent scholarly titles are a history of Dada, Destruction Was My Beatrice (Basic Books 2015), History of a Shiver: The Sublime Impudence of Modernism (Oxford U.P. His poetry titles include Tabula Rasula (1986), Hot Wax, or Psyche’s Drip (2007), and Hectic Pigment (2017) as well as numerous translations in his anthologies Burning City: Poems of Metropolitan Modernity co-edited with Tim Conley (2012) and Imagining Language co-edited with Steve McCaffery (1998). From 1990-2000 he was on the editorial board of the journal Sulfur. He received his PhD from UC Santa Cruz in the History of Consciousness Program.īefore pursuing a doctoral degree, Rasula worked in radio and television in Hollywood, and edited the poetry magazine Wch Way (1976-84).
Lanier Distinguished Professor at the University of Georgia. Professor Jed Rasula IAS Open Programme: Dada University of Georgia, USA
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