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“The Birds Swim through the Air at Top Speed”: Kinetic Identification in Keats, Whitman, Stevens, and Dickinson (Notes toward a Poetics)

published in the journal Critical Inquiry in 2016. The link will take you to a site where you can download the article, but you'll need to sign in via a university library account that provides permission for students and faculty. but . . .

here's a slightly re-edited version that will appear in my forthcoming Chax Press collection of critical essays. you can download it by clicking on this link.

you can buy my 1992 book Whitman's Presence: Body, Voice, and Text in Leaves of Grass at these sites

some of my published work on poetry that you can find online:

• Amazon

• Abe Books

• eBay

• pangobooks

"Collage and Pulverization in Charles Bernstein's Controlling Interests,'" originally published in Contemporary Literature

here are a couple blurbs I wrote for books of poetry I admire:

• Wherever I Look, I am Never There, by my friend Allen Brafman

• Inside Narratives, by former UA MFA student Ethan Saul Bull

some other stuff (a miscellaneous grab bag):

• video of a terrific reading by NYC poet Edwin Torres for the Enclave reading series, preceded by my intro

• a wonderful recollection by my New York writer friend Barb Henning of her years in Tucson: the poetry scene, POG, people . . .

• my friend Trace Peterson's intro for my reading in 2011 at the Zinc Bar in NYC, for a series that she curated

• my intro for a POG reading by poet Beverly Dahlen, published in On

• my review of Whitman the Political Poet by Betsy Erkkila

(you'll need access to a university library account to read this one)