Utter Vulnerability
Essays on the Poetry of John Wieners
Utter Vulnerability: Essays on the Poetry of John Wieners is the first-ever book devoted exclusively to this extraordinary writer, a figure Allen Ginsberg once called “one of the greatest poets around”. Featuring work by many of Wieners’ most articulate and passionate contemporary exponents, the essays gathered here consider the life, styles, aesthetics, and artistic achievements of one of America’s most original voices. From devoted close readings to socio-historical contextualisations, togethe...
Éditeur : Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée
Lieu d’édition : Montpellier
Publication sur OpenEdition Books : 2 février 2026
ISBN numérique : 978-2-36781-592-3
DOI : 10.4000/15ltf
Collection : Horizons anglophones
Année d’édition : 2025
ISBN (Édition imprimée) : 978-2-36781-523-7
Nombre de pages : 312
Alex/Rose Cocker et Michael Kindellan
PrefaceAndrea Brady
Making Use of This Pain: The John Wieners ArchivesMarc Chamberlain
Beyond ConfessionLuke Roberts
Lyric Audibility: In PublicFrancesca Lisette
“Spirits his Wife Speaks of / In the Singular”: Voice and Ventriloquy in the Poetry of John WienersJohn Wilkinson
Lying Under its LawRobert Wilson et Raymond Foye
PhotographsMichael Kindellan
Graphic WienersDavis Grundy
John Wieners and “the only one who ever mattered”Michael Seth Stewart
“A new structure from love”: Notes on John Wieners’ Devotional PoeticsRobert Dewhurst
A John Wieners ChecklistUtter Vulnerability: Essays on the Poetry of John Wieners is the first-ever book devoted exclusively to this extraordinary writer, a figure Allen Ginsberg once called “one of the greatest poets around”. Featuring work by many of Wieners’ most articulate and passionate contemporary exponents, the essays gathered here consider the life, styles, aesthetics, and artistic achievements of one of America’s most original voices. From devoted close readings to socio-historical contextualisations, together our contributors explore a fascinating schedule of ideas and actualities of style, sexuality, queerness, mental illness, resilience, and commitment to continual literary (re)invention. As such, Utter Vulnerability represents a significant moment in the unfinished history of Wieners’ critical reception. A landmark publication, this book provides a new platform for future discussion, debate, and appreciation.
Michael Kindellan (dir.)
Michael Kindellan is a lecturer in modern literature at the University of Sheffield, UK. Some published work includes The Late Cantos of Ezra Pound: Composition, Revision, Publication (Bloomsbury, 2017); and with Joshua Kotin, “The Cantos and Pedagogy” (Modernist Cultures, 2017). On occasion he dwells poetically, as in: Alphabet Poems: For Kids! with Emily Critchley and Alison Honey Woods (Prototype, 2020). Michael runs the broadside press Constitutional Information. With Joshua Hoeynck, he is editing the Complete(d) Correspondence of Charles Olson and Robert Creeley.
Alex/Rose Cocker (dir.)
Alex/Rose Cocker is an editor, journalist and scholar of all things queer. Their previous academic work focused on Anglophone representations of non-binary identities, for which they received a PhD in English Literature from the University of Sheffield in 2021. Their journalism tends to deal with the treatment of LGBT+ individuals in British media and politics. Girasol Press published their first book of poetry—Say, Spirit—in 2021. Alex uses the names ‘Alex’ and ‘Rose’ interchangeably—feel free to mix and match.
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