J Peter Moore
Biographic Data
| ID | 5701541 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Peter Moore |
| GIVEN NAMES | J Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Moore |
| SIGNATURE | MOORE J P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Purdue University West Lafayette |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Robert Duncan and the Vernacular of Preliteracy
In 1947, Robert Duncan wrote to William Carlos Williams with great eagerness, enthusing about his desire, aided by his reading of Williams’s poetry, to “bring into active concern this whole question of the new vernacular.” This paper asks what Duncan means by a “new vernacular.” In contrast to naturalistic representations, which establish the vernacular as an organic reflection of national character, recognizable through its distinctive lexicon a…
A silence that only they understand”: Amiri Baraka and the Silent Vernacular of The Dead Lecturer
The present essay grows out of an engagement with a single line from Amiri Baraka’s 1964 book, The Dead Lecturer. In the poem “Rhythm and Blues,” Baraka writes, “The people of my life / caressed with a silence that only they understand.” The line appears amid a long improvisation on the iconography of black vernacular life. In the middle of this cacophony of frantic chant and scream, Baraka posits silence, and not speech, as the condition of blac…
Attention Equals Life: The Pursuit of the Everyday in Contemporary Poetry and CultureThe Lyric in the Age of the BrainPoetic Machinations: Allegory, Surrealism, and Postmodern Poetic FormPitch of Poet…
Not long ago, a form letter arrived in my mail, part of a subscription drive for Poetry Magazine, featuring a quote from editor Don Share. Though finely worded, the message was simple: the value of poetry lies in the way its form heightens our senses to the details of our world, the way it encourages us to read the day with the same torqued curiosity that we read the page. More complicated than it looks, this assertion reflects a set of assumptio…
Bodies on the Line: Performance and the Sixties Poetry Reading in Visible Movement: Nuyorican Poetry from the Sixties to Slam
Book Review| March 01 2016 Bodies on the Line: Performance and the Sixties Poetry Reading in Visible Movement: Nuyorican Poetry from the Sixties to Slam Bodies on the Line: Performance and the Sixties Poetry Reading. By Allison, Raphael. Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press. 2014. xvii, 250 pp. Paper, $49.95; e-book, $49.95.In Visible Movement: Nuyorican Poetry from the Sixties to Slam. By Noel, Urayoán. Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press. 2014. 227 pp. Pa…
Being Numerous: Poetry and the Ground of Social Life
Renegade Poetics: Black Aesthetics and Formal Innovation in African American Poetry / Anthems, Sonnets, and Chants: Recovering the African American Poetry of the 1930s / The Muse Is Music: Jazz Poetry…
Book Review| September 01 2012 Renegade Poetics: Black Aesthetics and Formal Innovation in African American Poetry / Anthems, Sonnets, and Chants: Recovering the African American Poetry of the 1930s / The Muse Is Music: Jazz Poetry from the Harlem Renaissance to Spoken Word Renegade Poetics: Black Aesthetics and Formal Innovation in African American Poetry. By Shockley, Evie. Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press. 2011. xii, 264 pp. Paper, $39.95.Anthem…
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Being Numerous: Poetry and the Ground of Social Life
Renegade Poetics: Black Aesthetics and Formal Innovation in African American Poetry / Anthems, Sonnets, and Chants: Recovering the African American Poetry of the 1930s / The Muse Is Music: Jazz Poetry…
Book Review| September 01 2012 Renegade Poetics: Black Aesthetics and Formal Innovation in African American Poetry / Anthems, Sonnets, and Chants: Recovering the African American Poetry of the 1930s / The Muse Is Music: Jazz Poetry from the Harlem Renaissance to Spoken Word Renegade Poetics: Black Aesthetics and Formal Innovation in African American Poetry. By Shockley, Evie. Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press. 2011. xii, 264 pp. Paper, $39.95.Anthem…
Bodies on the Line: Performance and the Sixties Poetry Reading in Visible Movement: Nuyorican Poetry from the Sixties to Slam
Book Review| March 01 2016 Bodies on the Line: Performance and the Sixties Poetry Reading in Visible Movement: Nuyorican Poetry from the Sixties to Slam Bodies on the Line: Performance and the Sixties Poetry Reading. By Allison, Raphael. Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press. 2014. xvii, 250 pp. Paper, $49.95; e-book, $49.95.In Visible Movement: Nuyorican Poetry from the Sixties to Slam. By Noel, Urayoán. Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press. 2014. 227 pp. Pa…
A silence that only they understand”: Amiri Baraka and the Silent Vernacular of The Dead Lecturer
The present essay grows out of an engagement with a single line from Amiri Baraka’s 1964 book, The Dead Lecturer. In the poem “Rhythm and Blues,” Baraka writes, “The people of my life / caressed with a silence that only they understand.” The line appears amid a long improvisation on the iconography of black vernacular life. In the middle of this cacophony of frantic chant and scream, Baraka posits silence, and not speech, as the condition of blac…
Attention Equals Life: The Pursuit of the Everyday in Contemporary Poetry and CultureThe Lyric in the Age of the BrainPoetic Machinations: Allegory, Surrealism, and Postmodern Poetic FormPitch of Poet…
Not long ago, a form letter arrived in my mail, part of a subscription drive for Poetry Magazine, featuring a quote from editor Don Share. Though finely worded, the message was simple: the value of poetry lies in the way its form heightens our senses to the details of our world, the way it encourages us to read the day with the same torqued curiosity that we read the page. More complicated than it looks, this assertion reflects a set of assumptio…
Robert Duncan and the Vernacular of Preliteracy
In 1947, Robert Duncan wrote to William Carlos Williams with great eagerness, enthusing about his desire, aided by his reading of Williams’s poetry, to “bring into active concern this whole question of the new vernacular.” This paper asks what Duncan means by a “new vernacular.” In contrast to naturalistic representations, which establish the vernacular as an organic reflection of national character, recognizable through its distinctive lexicon a…
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