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POETRY
120 Pages, 6 x 9
Formats: Trade Paper
Trade Paper, $20.00 (CA $27.00) (US $20.00)
Publication Date: March 2010
ISBN 9781931824392
Rights: WOR
Roof Books (Mar 2010)
Writing on texts by authors as varied as Gertrude Stein, Niels Bohr, and Mother Goose, Joan Retallack’s book Procedural Elegies/Western Civ Cont’d/ disrupts the world of statements with worlds of inquiry. Each poem is an ecologically modeled operation powered by a quasi-systematic principle that is open and ever-changing. "In such a landscape there is no closure; these poems are sites for response, investigation, contemplation and delight." – Jena Osman
Joan Retallack’s book, Procedural Elegies/West Civ Cont’d/ was an ArtForum Best Book of 2010. As a poet, critic, biographer, and multi-disciplinary scholar, she was the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor of Humanities at Bard College where she taught courses in poetics, poethics, and experimental traditions in the arts. Retallack directed the Language & Thinking Program at Bard for ten years and participated in the development of an Arabic Language & Thinking Program at Al-Quds University, the Palestinian university in Jerusalem. Her work has been translated into six languages. In 2009, she delivered the Judith E. Wilson Poetics Lecture at Cambridge University, which hosted a two-day conference on her work. Her interests in poetics include polylingualism, ecopoetics, and the poethics of alterity.