• All That Remains Unnoticed, I Adore: Spencer Reese's Addresses

    Author(s):
    Eileen Joy (see profile)
    Date:
    2011
    Group(s):
    Cultural Studies, LGBTQ Studies, Philosophy, Poetics and Poetry
    Subject(s):
    Poetics, Poetry
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Poetics and poetry, Literary criticism
    Permanent URL:
    https://doi.org/10.17613/zyty-1363
    Abstract:
    An commentary upon the poet Spencer Reese, and more specifically, upon Reece's "addresses" in his book "The Clerk's Tale: Poems" (Houghton Mifflin, 2004) in light of Barbara Johnson's work on the "apostrophe" in her book chapter "Toys R Us," in her book "Persons and Things" (Harvard University Press, 2008), and also in light of Graham Harman's object-oriented ontology and Jane Bennett's vibrant materialism. The article explores the apostrophe, and in particular Reece's "addresses" as the hailing of the ephemeral and the lost and inanimate of history as if they might understand, and as a form of being-with in which there is a wildly constructed (because fictitious) intimacy that retains, nevertheless, great distances, forever untraversable. Similar to commentary, the article discusses the apostrophe as a ‘talking-writing’ to other ‘authors’ who have already left the building, but whose ‘signatures’ either remain as artifacts or as impressions of their absence, or of their muteness.
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    Publisher:
    Nicola Masciandaro, Dept. of English, Brooklyn College, CUNY
    Pub. Date:
    2011
    Journal:
    Glossator: Practice and Theory of The Commentary
    Volume:
    5
    Page Range:
    69 - 84
    ISSN:
    1942-3381
    Status:
    Published
    Last Updated:
    1 year ago
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