POETRY
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Somatic considers the often blurred line between physical and psychological illnesses, with an emphasis on hysteria, especially the foundational case of the hysteric Anna O. By evoking and torquing elegies, odes, and what I call arias, these poems explore the blurred line between the individual and the public, and between lamentation and praise.
"November Wasps balances absence and presence, grief and love, loss and praise...It's the intensity of feeling that draws us to the poems, but it's the holding back that devastates...A book of aching and mesmerizing truth."
—Steve Gehrke |
"Ann Keniston's quiet, passionate, wonderfully intelligent voice finds a way to give emotion, thought, and word a quiet gravity and grace that is unique in American poetry...these poems are superb exemplars of the mind in motion in which transparency of word matches exactly the density of thought and integrity of emotion."
—Tom Sleigh |
EDITED POETRY COLLECTION
"[W]hat may be the definitive representation of the 21st century's
troubled first decade. This brilliant anthology insists on
the importance of public poetry." —Michael Davidson
troubled first decade. This brilliant anthology insists on
the importance of public poetry." —Michael Davidson
CRITICISM
"With its lucid, compelling approach to the figures and forms of the economic present, Economies of Scale offers an essential account of contemporary poetry’s reflections on the logics of financialization." --Margaret Ronda
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"[Keniston's] deft readings give us important new ways of thinking about how poets hold themselves within spaces where the literal and figurative, presence and absence, blur and speak and fade.”
--Thomas Gardner |
Overheard Voices examines poetic address in the work of four post-World War II American poets, with a focus on loss, desire, figuration, audience, and subjectivity, offering new insight into contemporary lyric and the lyric genre more generally. |
COEDITED ESSAY COLLECTIONS
“The editors have done an impressive job of assembling and juxtaposing key texts in order to generate further dialogue and debate. This book offers a readable introduction to poststructural theory.”—Christopher Wise
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“This volume will be one of the foremost critical texts on contemporary poetry, and it will be cited by scholars in many different fields of the humanities and social sciences for years to come.” —David Ben-Merre |
Drawing on trauma theory, genre theory, political theory, and theories of postmodernity, space, and temporality, Literature After 9/11 suggests ways that these often distinct discourses can be recombined and set into dialogue with one another as it explores 9/11’s effects on literature and literature’s
attempts to convey 9/11. |