SELECTED ESSAYS

 

“A Shocking December Red.”

Image Journal. No. 105
Summer 2020     

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“The Toxic and the Lyric IV:
On Anaïs Duplan; Radical Intimacy as New History Poem; As Wound and as Co-Body; The Shaking Apart of Robert Lowell; Strange Fruit as IED.”

The Fanzine
2017

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“The Toxic and the Lyric III:
On Hearing; Sound and Damage; Suzan-Lori Parks and Douglas Kearney; A Cicatrice; Billie Holiday; Strange Fruit and Damaged Plants.”

The Fanzine
2017

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“The Toxic and the Lyric II:
Hearing and Hell; Inversion as Subversion; Everyone, or, the Dead; The Child-Migrant.”

The Fanzine
2017

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“The Toxic and the Lyric I:
On Losing My Hearing; The Sublime and the Virtual; Tuberculosis Bacilli.”

The Fanzine
2017

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“The Politics of Translation, Part 1.”

Center for the Art of Translation Blog
May 2017     

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“Every Poem an Escrache.”

Matter Monthly (Special Feature on the Poetics of Political Intervention)
March 2015

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“Warp Spasm Gristle Day (on Writing and Mixed Form)” 

The Volta
Spring 2013

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SELECTED REVIEWS

 

"Review of Sara Uribe’s Antígona González, trans. John Pluecker." 

The Bind
2017

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“Review of Amandine André’s Circle of Dogs translated by Kit Schluter and Jocelyn Spaar"

The Bind
2017

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“The Monstrosity of Sor Juana: On Enigmas by Sor Juana Inés de La Cruz trans. Stalina Emmanuelle Villarreal and Sor Juana and Other Monsters by Luis Felipe Febre, trans John Pluecker.”

Boston Review
2017

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“The Flame in the Grate: Uche Nduka’s Surrealism.”

Boston Review
2014

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