Books
History, Memory, and the Literary Left: Modern American
Poetry, 1935-1968. Contemporary North American Poetry Series.
Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2006.
The American Avant-Garde Tradition: William Carlos Williams,
Postmodern Poetry, and the Politics of Cultural Memory.
Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 1997.
Articles
“‘The Air of Atrocity’: ‘Of Being Numerous’ and the Vietnam
War.” Thinking Poetics: Essays on George Oppen. Ed. Steven
Shoemaker. Modern and Contemporary Poetics Series. Tuscaloosa:
University of Alabama Press, 2009.
“‘Why Not Say What Happens’: Modernism, Traumatic Memory, and
Lawrence Joseph’s Into It.” University of Cincinnati
Law Review Law and Literature Symposium: “‘Some Sort of Chronicler
I Am’: Narration and the Poetry of Lawrence Joseph.” 77.3 (Spring
2009): 843-61.
“William Carlos Williams and Modern Poetry: From Modernism to
Modernisms.” The William Carlos Williams Review 25.2
(Spring 2005): 39-54.
“Reading the Borders of ‘The Desert Music.’” The William Carlos
Williams Review 24.2 (Fall 2004): 61-77.
“Haiti and Black Transnationalism: Remapping the Migrant
Geography of Home to Harlem.” African American Review 34.3
(Fall 2000): 413-29.
“Langston Hughes and the ‘Nonsense’ of Bebop.” Unsettling
Blackness. Ed. Houston A. Baker, Jr. Spec. issue of American
Literature 72.2 (June 2000): 357-85.
“‘Littered with Old Correspondences’: Elizabeth Bishop, Wallace
Stevens, and the 1930s.” Arizona Quarterly 55.2 (Summer
1999): 87-114.
“‘Truths of Outrage, Truths of Possibility’: Muriel Rukeyser’s
‘The Book of the Dead.’” “How Shall We Teach Each Other of the
Poet?”: The Life and Writing of Muriel Rukeyser. Ed. Anne
F. Herzog and Janet E. Kaufman. New York: St. Martin’s, 1999.
195-208.
“Poetry, Property, and Propriety: Lorine Niedecker and the
Legacy of the Great Depression.” Sagetrieb 18.1 (Spring
1999): 29-40.
“‘A material collapse that is Construction’: Gwendolyn Brooks’s
In the Mecca and the Poetics of Counter-Memory.” MELUS
23.3 (Fall 1998): 3-20.
“‘Homesick for those memories’: The Gendering of Historical
Memory in Women’s Narratives of the Vietnam War.” Burning Down
the House: Recycling Domesticity. Ed. Rosemary Marangoly
George. Boulder, Colo.: Westview/HarperCollins, 1998. 257-78.
“The ‘Post-anti-esthetic’ Poetics of Frank O'Hara.”
Contemporary Literature 32 (Summer 1991): 244-64.
“Thoreau’s Cape Cod: The Unsettling Art of the Wrecker.”
American Literature 64 (June 1992): 239-54.
“‘A Plot of Ground’: The Problem of Cultural Identity in the
Emergence of Williams’ Avant-Garde Stance.” Sagetrieb 9.3
(Winter 1990): 97-119.
With Audrey R. Duckert, “From the Linguistic Atlas Archives: The
Hanley Disks.” Journal of English Linguistics 19 (October
1986): 206-21.
Reviews
Untitled review essay on Remarkable Modernisms: Contemporary
American Authors on Modern Art, by Daniel Morris. Studies in
the Novel 36.1 (Spring 2004): 137-40.
Untitled review essay on Complete Poems, by Claude McKay. Ed.
William J. Maxwell. St. John’s University Humanities
Review 2.2 (Spring 2004): 56-61.
Untitled review essay on Caribbean Waves: Relocating Claude McKay
and Paule Marshall, by Heather Hathaway. Modern Fiction
Studies 46.4 (Winter 2000): 1028-30.
Untitled review essay on American Literature and the Destruction
of Knowledge, by Ronald E. Martin. American Studies
International 31 (April 1993): 149-51.
Reprints
The American Avant-Garde Tradition: William Carlos Williams,
Postmodern Poetry, and the Politics of Cultural Memory.
Excerpted in Bloom’s Major Poets: William Carlos Williams.
Ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea House, 2002. 35-38,
97-103.
“The ‘Post-anti-esthetic’ Poetics of Frank O'Hara.” Excerpted in
Contemporary Literary Criticism, 78. Ed. James P. Draper.
Detroit: Gale, 1994. 372-76.