writing
books
Lyric as Comedy: The Poetics of Abjection in Postwar America. Cornell University Press, 2020.
The Selected Letters of John Berryman, co-editor with Philip Coleman. Harvard University Press, 2020.
peer-reviewed articles
"Robert Lowell’s Alphabet Poem: Writing to Children in the Midcentury." Forthcoming, American Literary History 34.2 (Summer 2022).
“‘More human than others’: Stevie Smith and the Inner Lives of Pets.” Journal of Modern Literature 45.1 (Fall 2021): 1-20. [open]
“‘Visible, invisible’: Dickinson, Revision, and Loss in Marianne Moore’s ‘A Jellyfish.’” The Emily Dickinson Journal 30.2 (fall-winter 2021): 116-133.
“Milton and Moore in Williams’s ‘Birds and Flowers.'” William Carlos Williams Review 38.2 (2021): 98-120.
“‘There’s enough’: Ulysses and the Long Lyrics of A. R. Ammons.” James Joyce Quarterly 57.3-4 (Spring-Summer 2020): 293-317. [gated]
“‘Now someone’s talking’: Unpunctuation and the Deadpan Poem.” Modernism/modernity 25.1 (January 2018): 1-20. [gated][open]
“Williams, Thom Gunn, and Humane Attention.” Williams Carlos Williams Review 34.1 (2017): 12-30. [gated]
“The ‘They’ in Dream Song 8.” ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews 30.3 (2017): 156-161.
“‘There ought to be a law’: The Unruly Comedy of The Dream Songs.” Modern Philology 114.2 (November 2016): 411-432. [gated]
“‘Another armored animal’: Robert Lowell’s Allusions to Marianne Moore.” Arizona Quarterly 72.2 (Summer 2016): 1-28. [gated][open]
“Direct Address in Paradise Lost.” Milton Studies 56 (2015): 17-43. (Received the Albert C. Labriola Award from the Milton Society of America, 2015.) [gated]
“Thinking you over: Elegies for Frost in 77 Dream Songs.” The Robert Frost Review 25 (2015): 70-86.
reviews, book chapters, other writing
“‘The great chain of being come undone’: Linking Blackness and Animal Studies.” Forthcoming review article, Environmental Humanities 14.2 (2022): 202-215.
On Yusef Komunyakaa, Everyday Mojo Songs of Earth: New and Selected Poems, 2001–2021. On the Seawall, June 2021.
On Natalie Shapero, Popular Longing. AGNI Online, April 2021.
On Patricia Lockwood, No One Is Talking About This. Chicago Review, March 2021.
On Amit Majmudar, What He Did in Solitary. Boston Review, March 2021.
On Srikanth Reddy, Underworld Lit. On the Seawall, September 2020.
On recent environmental news and windowstrike poems, Boston Review, January 2020.
On Thomas Austenfeld, ed., Lowell in a New Century: European and American Perspectives. New England Quarterly 93.1, March 2020.
“Robert Lowell and Louis MacNeice: Reading Likeness through Elegy,” Robert Lowell and Irish Poetry, eds. Eve Cobain and Philip Coleman. Peter Lang, 2020.
On Marilyn Chin, A Portrait of the Self as Nation. Kenyon Review Online, October 2019.
On Brenda Shaughnessy, The Octopus Museum. Harvard Review Online, September 2019.
On Rachel Trousdale, ed., Humor in Modern American Poetry. Studies in American Humor 5.1, 2019.
On The Book of Ephraim, by James Merrill, ed. Stephen Yenser. Kenyon Review Online, Fall 2018.
“Blurring Realms: Michael Heller’s New World.” Review essay, Jacket2, August 2018.
On Unearthings, by Wendy Chen. Harvard Review Online, July 2018.
On Mick Broderick, Reconstructing Strangelove: Inside Stanley Kubrick’s ‘Nightmare Comedy.’ Studies in American Humor 4.1, 2018.
On Anne Carson: Ecstatic Lyre, ed. Joshua Wilkinson. Journal of Modern Literature 41.3, Spring 2018.
On Lynn Melnick, Landscape with Sex and Violence. Boston Review, November 2017.
On Chen Chen, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities. Boston Review (microreview), June 2017.
On Krazy: George Herriman, A Life in Black and White, by Michael Tisserand. Rain Taxi 22.1, Spring 2017.
On Dear, Sincerely by David Hernandez. The Harvard Review Online, November 2016.
On How to Be Drawn, by Terrance Hayes. Callaloo 39.1, Winter 2016.
On The Sellout, by Paul Beatty. Rain Taxi Online, February 2016.
On The Complete Prose of T. S. Eliot: The Critical Edition, ed. Ronald Schuchard. Modern Language Studies 45.2, Winter 2016.
On Elizabeth Bishop’s marginalia. The Harvard Review Online, December 2015.
On Wide Awake: Poets of Los Angeles and Beyond, ed. Suzanne Lummis. Los Angeles Review of Books, October 2015.
On Oreo, by Fran Ross. Colorado Review Online, September 2015.
On Falling in Love with Hominids, by Nalo Hopkinson. The New York Review of Science Fiction, August 2015.
On James Merrill: Art and Life, by Langdon Hammer. Los Angeles Review of Books, May 2015.
On John Berryman’s Public Vision, by Philip Coleman. The Dublin Review of Books, May 2015.
On John Berryman’s and Dylan Thomas’s manuscripts. Houghton Library Blog, October 2014.
On T. S. Eliot’s juvenilia. Houghton Library Blog, October 2014.
