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Marjorie Perloff Conversation, Part 1
Hosted by
Charles Bernstein
Originally aired on
Friday, November 27th, 2009
Marjorie Perloff talks to Charles Bernstein about her mermoir, Vienna Paradox, the influence of her experience as a refugee on her literary criticism, her graduate school days as a Jewish intellectual at Catholic University of America, and the pernicious influence of Martin Heidegger on postwar thought. Perloff is one of America’s foremost scholars of modern and contemporary poetry and poetics. Her books include Rhyme and Meaning in the Poetry of Yeats (1970); Frank O’Hara: Poet Among Painters (1977); The Dance of the Intellect: Studies in the Poetry of the Pound Tradition (1985); The Futurist Moment: Avant-Garde, Avant-Guerre, and the Language of Rupture (1986), and Wittgenstein’s Ladder: Poetic Language and the Strangeness of the Ordinary (1996). And out late 2009: The Sound of Poetry / the Poetry of Sound, edited with Craig Dworkin. She lives in Los Angeles (28 minutes).
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