Dan Disney
Biographic Data
| ID | 959442 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dan Disney |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dan |
| FAMILY NAME | Disney |
| SIGNATURE | DISNEY D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sogang University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3380-8538 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Antitheticalities
Our contemporary historical moment has been characterized by theorists as not only performing a mode of cannibalistic capitalism (Nancy Fraser) but, within emergent digital structures, constituents are said to experience zombifying, neuronally violent information overload (Byung-Chul Han). In an era in which the biosphere attempts to communicate increasingly grim planetary directives, this fictocritical paper thinks toward possible modes of ethic…
Just Like by Lee Sumyeong (review)
I Am Not Korean by Song Kyeong-Dong (review)
San'si'in-Ship
The Cambridge Companion to Australian Poetry
An invaluable resource for staff and students in literary studies and Australian studies, this volume is the first major critical survey on Australian poetry. It investigates poetry's central role in engaging with issues of colonialism, nationalism, war and crisis, diaspora, gender and sexuality, and the environment. Individual chapters examine Aboriginal writing and the archive, poetry and activism, print culture, and practices of internationall…
Alogopoiesis by Amelia Walker (review)
Reviewed by: Alogopoiesis by Amelia Walker Dan Disney AMELIA WALKER Alogopoiesis Sydney. Life Before Man Press. 2023. 340 pages. IN A LONG BOOK that altogether for-goes page numbers, early on readers encounter a set of lines conjuring a mouth (possibly male) telling an unintroduced presence (very possibly female) that they must "make more sense." Written from inside the antipodean sensorium, Australian poet Amelia Walker's new book attempts to sh…
Concealed Words by Sin Yong-Mok (review)
Reviewed by: Concealed Words by Sin Yong-Mok Dan Disney SIN YONG-MOK Concealed Words Trans. Brother Anthony of Taizé. Boston. Black Ocean. 2022. 88 pages. SURELY SIN YONG-MOK is a human-ist, albeit complexly so, his dreamlike free-verse poems both ferociously secular and transcendentally fixated. Love, sorrow, death—Frost’s so-called larger excruciations—suffuse this long book, in which ideas meander imagistically, Sin’s flâneur-poems rendering e…
She would probably envy herself, from outside’
In one of Alice Munro’s longer stories, the metafictional ‘Fiction’, readers encounter a series of contingent narratives in which characters exert explicit, self-constructing expressive labours. The text is split into two sections: in the first, the protagonist Joyce is betrayed by her husband, Jon and her life momentarily falls to pieces. In the second section, decades later, Joyce is remarried, surrounded by friends and family, her life repleni…
Revenants by Adam Aitken
Reviewed by: Revenants by Adam Aitken Dan Disney Adam Aitken Revenants Sydney. Giramondo. 2022. 96 pages. before opening this book, I kept picturing Leonardo DiCaprio fending off a lunging set of teeth and claws, alone in a North American forest. What is it about Australian poets borrowing titles from other works (Kevin Brophy's Seeing Things arriving a decade after Heaney's book; Anthony Lawrence's prizewinning Headwaters decades after Peter Skr…
Fifteeners by Jordie Albiston
Reviewed by: Fifteeners by Jordie Albiston Dan Disney Jordie Albiston Fifteeners Waratah, Australia. Puncher & Wattmann. 2021. 98 pages. FIFTEENERS IS THE latest stunning installment in this storied poet's fearless oeuvre, and Jordie Albiston's book of strangest deformations of the sonnet form traverses "all the life / That an awkward person must go through in / The awkward course toward death." In the first poem, an ars poetica and apologia, Alb…
New Directions in Contemporary Australian Poetry
John KinsellaBrimstone
0 table,” where the complicated covenants and codes of masculinity are passed down in silence and violence. Everywhere in this book, Finna strikes notes of salvation and resistance. Collectively , the poems make a parable of vernacular culture, which is to say, Marshall constructs an eloquent and defiant freedom inside the very contours of speech that is designed to imprison. This battle is played out as a kind of verbal interplay where “we make …
Co-Authoring Communitas
John Kinsella remains Australia’s most militant, morally cognizant naysayer, and his oeuvre is an archive of precepts running counter to master narratives of place. This essay re-reads Benjamin’s notion of the artist as cultural producer against the grain of Esposito’s etymological excavations of “community,” and frames Kinsella’s steady output of co-authored books as not only a mode of nomadic munificence but no less than a kind of formative gue…
Kim Sa-inLiking in Silence
In Québec’s “county of ***,” a widow’s life might be predictable, “set like tracks in the snow.” Or not: “She picked up the knife, set it down again. Picked it up. Set it down.” Here, a love story has rat poison, a rope, a one-eyed cat, and more widows than brides. Renée LePine, not widowed but single, works at Spencer House, monitoring the eponymous baths where one husband died. A simple task—daily, at midnight—but not: she drops weight, suffers…
Charmaine Papertalk GreenNganajungu Yagu
complacent) girl, Aspirin takes her to his place so he can figure out to whom he should send her the next morning. His decision to bring Alyona into his apartment changes his life dramatically. Things move quickly, with strange men coming to the apartment ostensibly to take Alyona “back” to where she came from, Alyona explaining that she is actually from another dimension or plane of existence, and the subtle transformation of the girl’s teddy be…
Anything was possible’
In one of Alice Munro’s longer works of short fiction, ‘The Bear Came over the Mountain’, readers are thrust into a narrative in which the protagonist, Grant, is forced to place his ageing and forgetful wife Fiona into a residential care facility. So amnesic is Fiona that, no longer remembering she has hitherto existed happily alongside Grant, she soon forms an intimate friendship with another resident, Aubrey. But Grant is no sympathetic protago…
James Byrne Shehzar DojaI Am a Rohingya
runs through the city, he must turn to illegal refugees for manpower, through his best friend, Keong, the “middleman.” Unlike the “dark-skinned and foreign” migrants from Bangladesh, Myanmar, and Nepal, the Rohingya refugees fled persecution by the Burmese state and are smuggled into Malaysia. They are exploited and brutalized simply because they didn’t have “refugee papers.” During negotiations with a “labor contractor,” Ah Hock commits a crime …
Blakwork by Alison Whittaker
Mircea Dinescu The Barbarians’ Return Trans. Adam J. Sorkin & Lidia Vianu Bloodaxe Books This collection of poems written by contemporary Romanian poet Mircea Dinescu explores the existential ramifications for individuals living in a politically troubled and consumerdriven society. The Barbarians’ Return is imbued with Dinescu’s characteristic musicality and wit, which packs a punch emphasized by his sly critiques and musings on human introspecti…
Grasshoppers' Eyes by Ko Hyeong-Ryeol
inner workings of these original German poems. Sieburth’s translations offer a fascinating insight into the thoughts and literary sensibility of one of the great minds of the twentieth century. Peter Constantine University of Connecticut Ko Hyeong-Ryeol Grasshoppers’ Eyes Trans. Brother Anthony of Taizé & Lee Hyung-Jin. Anderson, South Carolina. Parlor Press. 2017. 121 pages. In the short introduction to Grasshopppers’ Eyes, the book’s translator…
False Claims of Colonial Thieves by Charmaine Papertalk Green John Kinsella
has ever made. Numbers, words, numbers, words.” He envisions “the pigeon descending on [his] window as a messenger with the voice of what [he has] lost.” A poet cannot be cut to sizes like L, XL, or XXL. Living in a country overrun by the machinations of globalization, Shankar builds his wall of poems against it. Ravi Shanker N. Palakkad, India Charmaine Papertalk Green & John Kinsella False Claims of ColonialThieves Broome, Australia. Magabala B…
I Looked Out and Nature Was Gone
In the nearly 800 pages that comprise the three volumes of his Graphology Poems 1995–2015 (Five Islands P, 2016), John Kinsella demonstrates an exemplary moral anger registering iterations of colonial “omni-speak” as unethical (1: 93). This paper reads Giorgio Agamben’s Homo Sacer (Stanford UP, 1998) by way of apprehending the rhetorical substrata underpinning discourses of Australia as not just determining a sovereign colonial space; in a place …
Painting Red Orchids
of association on multiple levels of human experience. In other words, many of these poems speak directly to the body part as if it were a whole person and then continue to name and rename it metaphorically. For example, in “Ode to the Clitoris,” she begins: “Little eagerness; / flower-girl basket of soft thorn / and petal, near the entry of the satin / column of the inner aisle; / scout in the wilderness; wild ear / which perks up; tender dowser…
Maninbo
or “t” to another, like spinning subatomic particles excited by an accelerator. This passage also suggests the epic dimensions of Streaming. The breadth, the depth, the historical and cultural reach, and the preternatural musings of the collection as a whole demand it be read as an epic poem, both in the sense of heightened language and in terms of its ambition. Two long poems, “Burn” and “Streaming ,” both of which are “mini-epics,” are placed i…
Patterns by Lee Si-young
mother’s voice (see WLT, March 2015, 19). Her language is cool and clean and strong, like glacial ice. Her messages are intimate without being sentimental, bearing the sincerity of secrets. Her inimitable quality is the result of an adherence to simplicity and sympathy, as her poems speak directly to the reader and use white space as consciously as they do words. Fiona Sze-Lorrain’s English translations , presented here alongside the source texts…
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She would probably envy herself, from outside’
In one of Alice Munro’s longer stories, the metafictional ‘Fiction’, readers encounter a series of contingent narratives in which characters exert explicit, self-constructing expressive labours. The text is split into two sections: in the first, the protagonist Joyce is betrayed by her husband, Jon and her life momentarily falls to pieces. In the second section, decades later, Joyce is remarried, surrounded by friends and family, her life repleni…
Anything was possible’
In one of Alice Munro’s longer works of short fiction, ‘The Bear Came over the Mountain’, readers are thrust into a narrative in which the protagonist, Grant, is forced to place his ageing and forgetful wife Fiona into a residential care facility. So amnesic is Fiona that, no longer remembering she has hitherto existed happily alongside Grant, she soon forms an intimate friendship with another resident, Aubrey. But Grant is no sympathetic protago…
I Looked Out and Nature Was Gone
In the nearly 800 pages that comprise the three volumes of his Graphology Poems 1995–2015 (Five Islands P, 2016), John Kinsella demonstrates an exemplary moral anger registering iterations of colonial “omni-speak” as unethical (1: 93). This paper reads Giorgio Agamben’s Homo Sacer (Stanford UP, 1998) by way of apprehending the rhetorical substrata underpinning discourses of Australia as not just determining a sovereign colonial space; in a place …
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Ecce hombre; How to talk of phantasmagoria with your from‐down‐the‐road neighbour; Illogos; Man with large model of the city he lives in attached to his back; Man with the one million ideas
(2003). Ecce hombre; How to talk of phantasmagoria with your from‐down‐the‐road neighbour; Illogos; Man with large model of the city he lives in attached to his back; Man with the one million ideas: A play (for Kenneth Koch); Still‐life with Portuguese sardine; The Play: The play; Things for nightfall: For Jordie Albiston. Journal of Australian Studies: Vol. 27, Sojourners and Strangers, pp. 129-137
Maninbo
or “t” to another, like spinning subatomic particles excited by an accelerator. This passage also suggests the epic dimensions of Streaming. The breadth, the depth, the historical and cultural reach, and the preternatural musings of the collection as a whole demand it be read as an epic poem, both in the sense of heightened language and in terms of its ambition. Two long poems, “Burn” and “Streaming ,” both of which are “mini-epics,” are placed i…
Patterns by Lee Si-young
mother’s voice (see WLT, March 2015, 19). Her language is cool and clean and strong, like glacial ice. Her messages are intimate without being sentimental, bearing the sincerity of secrets. Her inimitable quality is the result of an adherence to simplicity and sympathy, as her poems speak directly to the reader and use white space as consciously as they do words. Fiona Sze-Lorrain’s English translations , presented here alongside the source texts…
Painting Red Orchids
of association on multiple levels of human experience. In other words, many of these poems speak directly to the body part as if it were a whole person and then continue to name and rename it metaphorically. For example, in “Ode to the Clitoris,” she begins: “Little eagerness; / flower-girl basket of soft thorn / and petal, near the entry of the satin / column of the inner aisle; / scout in the wilderness; wild ear / which perks up; tender dowser…
Grasshoppers' Eyes by Ko Hyeong-Ryeol
inner workings of these original German poems. Sieburth’s translations offer a fascinating insight into the thoughts and literary sensibility of one of the great minds of the twentieth century. Peter Constantine University of Connecticut Ko Hyeong-Ryeol Grasshoppers’ Eyes Trans. Brother Anthony of Taizé & Lee Hyung-Jin. Anderson, South Carolina. Parlor Press. 2017. 121 pages. In the short introduction to Grasshopppers’ Eyes, the book’s translator…
False Claims of Colonial Thieves by Charmaine Papertalk Green John Kinsella
has ever made. Numbers, words, numbers, words.” He envisions “the pigeon descending on [his] window as a messenger with the voice of what [he has] lost.” A poet cannot be cut to sizes like L, XL, or XXL. Living in a country overrun by the machinations of globalization, Shankar builds his wall of poems against it. Ravi Shanker N. Palakkad, India Charmaine Papertalk Green & John Kinsella False Claims of ColonialThieves Broome, Australia. Magabala B…
I Looked Out and Nature Was Gone
In the nearly 800 pages that comprise the three volumes of his Graphology Poems 1995–2015 (Five Islands P, 2016), John Kinsella demonstrates an exemplary moral anger registering iterations of colonial “omni-speak” as unethical (1: 93). This paper reads Giorgio Agamben’s Homo Sacer (Stanford UP, 1998) by way of apprehending the rhetorical substrata underpinning discourses of Australia as not just determining a sovereign colonial space; in a place …
Anything was possible’
In one of Alice Munro’s longer works of short fiction, ‘The Bear Came over the Mountain’, readers are thrust into a narrative in which the protagonist, Grant, is forced to place his ageing and forgetful wife Fiona into a residential care facility. So amnesic is Fiona that, no longer remembering she has hitherto existed happily alongside Grant, she soon forms an intimate friendship with another resident, Aubrey. But Grant is no sympathetic protago…
James Byrne Shehzar DojaI Am a Rohingya
runs through the city, he must turn to illegal refugees for manpower, through his best friend, Keong, the “middleman.” Unlike the “dark-skinned and foreign” migrants from Bangladesh, Myanmar, and Nepal, the Rohingya refugees fled persecution by the Burmese state and are smuggled into Malaysia. They are exploited and brutalized simply because they didn’t have “refugee papers.” During negotiations with a “labor contractor,” Ah Hock commits a crime …
Blakwork by Alison Whittaker
Mircea Dinescu The Barbarians’ Return Trans. Adam J. Sorkin & Lidia Vianu Bloodaxe Books This collection of poems written by contemporary Romanian poet Mircea Dinescu explores the existential ramifications for individuals living in a politically troubled and consumerdriven society. The Barbarians’ Return is imbued with Dinescu’s characteristic musicality and wit, which packs a punch emphasized by his sly critiques and musings on human introspecti…
Charmaine Papertalk GreenNganajungu Yagu
complacent) girl, Aspirin takes her to his place so he can figure out to whom he should send her the next morning. His decision to bring Alyona into his apartment changes his life dramatically. Things move quickly, with strange men coming to the apartment ostensibly to take Alyona “back” to where she came from, Alyona explaining that she is actually from another dimension or plane of existence, and the subtle transformation of the girl’s teddy be…
New Directions in Contemporary Australian Poetry
John KinsellaBrimstone
0 table,” where the complicated covenants and codes of masculinity are passed down in silence and violence. Everywhere in this book, Finna strikes notes of salvation and resistance. Collectively , the poems make a parable of vernacular culture, which is to say, Marshall constructs an eloquent and defiant freedom inside the very contours of speech that is designed to imprison. This battle is played out as a kind of verbal interplay where “we make …
Co-Authoring Communitas
John Kinsella remains Australia’s most militant, morally cognizant naysayer, and his oeuvre is an archive of precepts running counter to master narratives of place. This essay re-reads Benjamin’s notion of the artist as cultural producer against the grain of Esposito’s etymological excavations of “community,” and frames Kinsella’s steady output of co-authored books as not only a mode of nomadic munificence but no less than a kind of formative gue…
Kim Sa-inLiking in Silence
In Québec’s “county of ***,” a widow’s life might be predictable, “set like tracks in the snow.” Or not: “She picked up the knife, set it down again. Picked it up. Set it down.” Here, a love story has rat poison, a rope, a one-eyed cat, and more widows than brides. Renée LePine, not widowed but single, works at Spencer House, monitoring the eponymous baths where one husband died. A simple task—daily, at midnight—but not: she drops weight, suffers…
Revenants by Adam Aitken
Reviewed by: Revenants by Adam Aitken Dan Disney Adam Aitken Revenants Sydney. Giramondo. 2022. 96 pages. before opening this book, I kept picturing Leonardo DiCaprio fending off a lunging set of teeth and claws, alone in a North American forest. What is it about Australian poets borrowing titles from other works (Kevin Brophy's Seeing Things arriving a decade after Heaney's book; Anthony Lawrence's prizewinning Headwaters decades after Peter Skr…
Fifteeners by Jordie Albiston
Reviewed by: Fifteeners by Jordie Albiston Dan Disney Jordie Albiston Fifteeners Waratah, Australia. Puncher & Wattmann. 2021. 98 pages. FIFTEENERS IS THE latest stunning installment in this storied poet's fearless oeuvre, and Jordie Albiston's book of strangest deformations of the sonnet form traverses "all the life / That an awkward person must go through in / The awkward course toward death." In the first poem, an ars poetica and apologia, Alb…
Concealed Words by Sin Yong-Mok (review)
Reviewed by: Concealed Words by Sin Yong-Mok Dan Disney SIN YONG-MOK Concealed Words Trans. Brother Anthony of Taizé. Boston. Black Ocean. 2022. 88 pages. SURELY SIN YONG-MOK is a human-ist, albeit complexly so, his dreamlike free-verse poems both ferociously secular and transcendentally fixated. Love, sorrow, death—Frost’s so-called larger excruciations—suffuse this long book, in which ideas meander imagistically, Sin’s flâneur-poems rendering e…
She would probably envy herself, from outside’
In one of Alice Munro’s longer stories, the metafictional ‘Fiction’, readers encounter a series of contingent narratives in which characters exert explicit, self-constructing expressive labours. The text is split into two sections: in the first, the protagonist Joyce is betrayed by her husband, Jon and her life momentarily falls to pieces. In the second section, decades later, Joyce is remarried, surrounded by friends and family, her life repleni…
The Cambridge Companion to Australian Poetry
An invaluable resource for staff and students in literary studies and Australian studies, this volume is the first major critical survey on Australian poetry. It investigates poetry's central role in engaging with issues of colonialism, nationalism, war and crisis, diaspora, gender and sexuality, and the environment. Individual chapters examine Aboriginal writing and the archive, poetry and activism, print culture, and practices of internationall…
Alogopoiesis by Amelia Walker (review)
Reviewed by: Alogopoiesis by Amelia Walker Dan Disney AMELIA WALKER Alogopoiesis Sydney. Life Before Man Press. 2023. 340 pages. IN A LONG BOOK that altogether for-goes page numbers, early on readers encounter a set of lines conjuring a mouth (possibly male) telling an unintroduced presence (very possibly female) that they must "make more sense." Written from inside the antipodean sensorium, Australian poet Amelia Walker's new book attempts to sh…
Antitheticalities
Our contemporary historical moment has been characterized by theorists as not only performing a mode of cannibalistic capitalism (Nancy Fraser) but, within emergent digital structures, constituents are said to experience zombifying, neuronally violent information overload (Byung-Chul Han). In an era in which the biosphere attempts to communicate increasingly grim planetary directives, this fictocritical paper thinks toward possible modes of ethic…
Just Like by Lee Sumyeong (review)
I Am Not Korean by Song Kyeong-Dong (review)
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