from FIGURING, a column for Tarpaulin Sky Magazine
2022 Roundup | Dec. 2022
>> here’s 2021 & 2020
Any viewing demands imagination: On Mel Bochner’s Drawings: A Retrospective at the Art Institute of Chicago & Renee Gladman’s Plans for Sentences | July 2022
Interview with Miranda Mellis | June 2021
On Dams | Mar. 2021
>> link to list of dams in art & literature (on-going)
Tools, Typewriters, & Madeline Gins | Feb. 2021
Five Small Rocks | Sept. 2020
A Geometric Meditation on Renee Gladman’s One Long Black Sentence | Aug. 2020
Mathematics of Uncertain, Unsettled Wonder: a conversation with Mark Mayer | July 2020
On Fractals, Part 2 | Apr. 2020
On Fractals, Part 1 | Mar. 2020
LITERARY CRITICISM
The Mathematical Affect of Pamela Lu | Experimental Writing in English (1945-2000): The Anti-Canon Conference, Brussels, Sept. 15-16, 2022
The Iterative Environments of Juan José Saer | Annulet: A Journal of Poetics, issue 3, 2022
On / No Measure (video, at the 35 min. mark) —on “measurement” via Jay Wright, Gertrude Stein, Ed Roberson, & my manuscript No Measure | New Orleans Poetry Festival, Apr. 21, 2021
On Elizabeth Bishop’s “Vague Poem (Vaguely Love Poem)” | Annulet: A Journal of Poetics, issue 1, 2021 (best viewed on desktop)
Will Alexander’s Kinetic Encyclopedia | The Louisville Conference on Literature & Culture Since 1900, Feb. 20-22, 2020
Language of Measurement in Henry James’ In the Cage | The Explicator vol. 78, no. 1, 2020
Irresistible Arithmetics: Mathematical Metaphors & Gertrude Stein | British Association for Modernist Studies Conference, London, June 20-22, 2019
BOOK REVIEWS
Extracted from the Narrative Lattice: The Water Statues by Fleur Jaeggy (tr. Gini Alhadeff, New Directions, 2021) | Newfound, no. 13, issue 1, 2022
The Regal Lemon Tree by Juan José Saer (tr. Sergio Waisman, Open Letter, 2020) | Full Stop, 2021
Switch Wish by Willy Smart (Meekling Press, 2020) | Tarpaulin Sky Magazine, 2020
Exploded View by Carrie Tiffany (Text Publishing, 2019) | Tarpaulin Sky Magazine, 2020
The Maze of Transparencies by Karen An-hwei Lee (Ellipsis Press, 2019) | Full Stop, 2020
The Hanky of Pippin’s Daughter by Rosmarie Waldrop (Dorothy, a publishing project, 2019) | Full Stop, 2020
A Compact of Figurations: Reading Will Alexander’s A Cannibal Explains Himself to Himself (The Elephants, 2019) | Tarpaulin Sky Magazine, 2019 (best viewed on desktop)
Love in the New Millennium by Can Xue (tr. Annelise Finegan Wasmoen, Yale UP, 2018) | Full Stop, 2019
Glory Hole by Stephen Beachy (FC2, 2017) | Full Stop, 2018
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