Works by
Juliana Spahr
(Editor, Poet)
[1966 - ]

As Editor

• Poetry and Pedagogy: the Challenge of the Contemporary (2006) with Joan Retallack, ed.
  Few could deny that the contemporary is the chronic blind spot in most liberal arts curricula. Many “twentieth century lit.” courses still don’t cover much after the mid-fifties; other disciplines in the humanities don’t acknowledge poetry at all as part of the study of the contemporary. The essays collected here suggestively address the possibilities, pleasures, and risks of teaching from the multiplicity of poetries that have proliferated since the sixties. They discuss how to create a lively, investigative poetry classroom and suggest ways to work with cultural implications of poetry in society. The aim is to invite students to experience and make meaning of the poetics of our contemporary world, one that is blatantly “multi”—multi-cultural, lingual, racial, and ethnic.

• American Women Poets in the 21st Century: Where Lyric Meets Language (2002) with Claudia Rankine, ed.
  thought-provoking mix of poetry, creative manifesto and criticism.

• Chain (1994) with Jena Osman, ed.

• A Poetics of Criticism (1993) with Mark Wallace, Kristin Prevallet, and Pam Rehm, eds.
  Essay collection

• Writing from the New Coast: Technique (1993) with Peter Gizzi, ed.
  Essay collection

Non-fiction

• Everybody's Autonomy: Connective Reading and Collective Identity (2001)

Poetry

• The Transformation (2007)
  Juliana Spahr has lived in many places, including Chillicothe (Ohio), Buffalo (New York), Honolulu (Hawaii), and Brooklyn (New York). She has absorbed, participated in, and been transformed by the politics and ecologies of each. This book is about that process. The Transformation "tells a barely truthful story of the years 1997-2001," a story of flora and fauna, of continents, islands, academies, connective tissue, military and linguistic operations, and of that ever-present we, to name only a few. At once exhilarating, challenging, and humbling, he Transformation is a hefty book in its honesty and scope, a must-read.

• This Connection of Everyone With Lungs (2005)
  Part planetary love poem, part 24/7 news flash, the hypnotic poems of This Connection of Everyone with Lungs wrap with equal, angular grace around lovers and battleships. These poems hear the tracer fire in a bird's song and capture cell division and troop deployments in the same expansive thought. They move through concentric levels of association and embrace --from the space between the hands to the mesosphere and back again--touching everything in between. The book's focus shifts between local and global, public and private, individual and social. Everything gets in: through all five senses, through windows, between your sheets, under your skin.

• things of each possible relation hashing against one another (2003)
  Australian ethnohistorian Greg Dening argues that there are two views that define the Pacific: a view from the sea (the view of those who arrived from elsewhere) and the view from the land (those who were already there). things of each possible relation hashing against one another is a series of poems that opens with the view from the sea and end with the view from the land and are about the ecological hashing that happens as these two views meet in Hawai'i.

• Fuck You-Aloha-I Love You (2001)
  This book of documentary poetics is by an important up and coming female experimentalist.

• Spiderwasp or Literary Criticism (1998)

• Response (1996)

• Nuclear (1994)

See also:

• Biography - Juliana Spahr (2007)
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