19 May 2021 - 19 May 2021
5:30PM - 7:00PM
Online (Zoom)
Free
This joint Inventions of the Text and Centre for Visual Arts and Culture seminar will discuss how modern poets have represented the visual portrait in writing.
Inventions of the Text
A long line of women poets, from modernist poets like Gertrude Stein, Mina Loy, and Marianne Moore to a variety of contemporary poets such as Bernadette Mayer and Robin Coste Lewis, have adopted and subverted the genre of portraiture by turning the lens around to gaze back at the male figure. Prof Epstein's paper studies how the poets reverse and undermine the long history of portraiture, using humor, irony, and other tools to root out its fundamental basis in misogyny and power in the process.
Professor of English, Florida State University
Andrew Epstein is the author of Attention Equals Life: The Pursuit of the Everyday in Contemporary Poetry and Culture and Beautiful Enemies: Friendship and Postwar American Poetry. His work has appeared in Contemporary Literature, the New York Times Book Review, American Literary History, The Wallace Stevens Journal, The Cambridge Companion to American Poets, The Cambridge History of Postmodern Literature, and many other publications. He also blogs about the New York School of poetry.
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