Transubstantiations

Overview

Transubstantiation is an immense word. Invisible and instantaneous, it is powerful in whatever realm claims it — ecclesiastic, alchemic, or mythical. Or poetical. It crosses boundaries, and shifts instantaneously this to that. Jerome McGann’s book of poems, TRANSUBSTANTIATIONS, is a multitudinous, sometimes hilarious, game-playing, tormented, and deeply provocative collection from decades of his writing. It is the plural of his title, the multiple transubstantiations, that link many of the poems, rattle their territories, and provide both the weight and the lift to this book.

Author Biography

Janet Kauffman is an American novelist, poet, and mixed media artist who has also been a civil rights, environmental, equal rights, peace, and social justice activist. Jerome McGann is a major critic and scholar whose most influential works include The Romantic Ideology and A Critique of Modern Textual Criticism (both 1983). His more than 25 books include Byron: The Complete Poetical Works in 7 Vols., as well as 4 books of poetry. In 1993, McGann began his online The Rossetti Archive (1993–2008). He is also the founder of the Applied Research in Patacriticism digital laboratory. A Fulbright Fellow, Guggenheim Fellow, among other awards he has been a professor at the University of Virginia since 1986. Jerome McGann is a major critic and scholar whose most influential works include The Romantic Ideology and A Critique of Modern Textual Criticism (both 1983). His more than 25 books include Byron: The Complete Poetical Works in 7 Vols., as well as 4 books of poetry. In 1993, McGann began his online The Rossetti Archive (1993–2008). He is also the founder of the Applied Research in Patacriticism digital laboratory. A Fulbright Fellow, Guggenheim Fellow, among other awards he has been a professor at the University of Virginia since 1886.