[Englecturers] last call for encyclopedia entries

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Hi all,
 
This is a last, urgent call for entries in the forthcoming Greenwood
Encyclopedia of American Poetry, which is apt to be the definitive reference
book on the topic (in seven volumes). The entries that are left are mostly
on obscure figures. They need to be short (1000 words or so) and they need
to be done very quickly (submitted by email to the editor, Jeffrey Gray, no
later than July 15).
 
If you're interested, please email Jeff Gray directly at
<mailto:grayjefh at shu.edu> grayjefh at shu.edu.
 
Best,
 
Steve

Steven Gould Axelrod
Professor of English
Director of Graduate Studies
University of California
Riverside, CA 92521
951 780 5653 (home phone) 

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeffrey Gray [mailto:grayjefh at shu.edu] 
Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 5:55 PM
To: Steven Axelrod
Subject: RE: entries



Thanks, Steve-- 

Did I mention that Marjorie Perloff (soon to be MLA president) is talking
about having a reception/celebration at MLA--I suppose 2006, but she said
2005 could be possible--for the encyclopedia? 

Basically, Greenwood has frozen content on the project, so any entries to be
inserted following copy editing will have to be in by July 15.  After that,
we have to give up trying to assign.   

So here are those I had most wanted to assign. I'll include pre-20th c. too.
And I'll put Blackmur back in; I think he'd been in early on, and because he
was mostly known as a critic, I left him out, but he published three books
of poems. Basically, all these would have to be written right away.
They're all 1000-1200 words. 

key unassigned 20th c. entries 

Ben Belitt 
Mae Cowdery 
Ann Spencer 
Judy Grahn 
David Ray 
W.S. DiPiero 
Michael Blumenthal 
George Scarborough 
Nicole Brossard 
Diane Ackerman 
Edgar Bowers, 
Helen Pinkerton 
E. Ethelbert Miller 
R.P. Blackmur 

pre-20th c.-key entries 
Benjamin Coleman 
Rowland Rugely 
Daniel Russell 
Henricus Selyns 
Thomas Holley Chivers 

pre-20th, also important: 
Benjamin Blood 
Howard Weedon 
George Pope Morris 
Richard Henry Wilde 
James Gates Percival 
Dewitt Clinton Duncan 
Joseph Breintnall 
Josiah D. Canning 
Charles Timothy Brooks 
Thomas Cole 
Philip Pendleton Cooke 
Samuel Henry Dickson 
Thomas Dunn English 
Josiah Gilbert Holland 
Cornelius Mathews 
George Pope Morris 
John Neal 
John Howard Payne 
Edward Coote Pinkney 
Epes Sargent 
William Wetmore Story 
Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorne 
Sarah Whipple Goodhue 
Henry Timrod 

All the best, 
Jeff 

Jeffrey H. Gray, Associate Professor
Department of English
Seton Hall University
South Orange, NJ 07079 



"Steven Axelrod" <steven.axelrod at ucr.edu> 


06/23/2005 08:01 PM 


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"'Jeffrey Gray'" <grayjefh at shu.edu> 

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Hi  Jeff, 
  
Mark  has had health problems--epilepsy. So it was probably he who dropped
the ball.  But he's a capable writer when on his game, with a bunch of
articles to his  credit. If he's well and focused, I think he'll do a good
job. 
  
I sort  of zoned out about the other poets you mentioned, but now that it's
summer, it's  possible that some of our grad students and lecturers would
like to do a  last-minute entry. If you'd like to give me a list of names
with a deadline, I  could circulate it and see what we turn up. 
  
I  don't recognize the line, "You took a sunset personally." It's a
wonderful line,  and it could have come from Lowell but didn't. Perhaps you
registered the  presence of Lowell's voice in yours in that line--or perhaps
you just registered  how good the line is and expressed your delight by
wondering if you really did  it. Send me some pages later this summer, if
they're ready for viewing. I'd like  to read them. I've just been looking at
the new Bidart and the new Hacker, both  of which I like a lot. It's a
pleasure to have a bit of time for recreational  reading--though I do have
about four dissertation chapters sitting on my  conscience. 
  
I just  finished an article on "Counter-Memory in American War Poetry
1941-2005," for a  European collection. It's been haunting me for weeks. I
didn't have anything to  say for the longest time and then, gratzie to the
muses, I did. I just emailed  it off five minutes ago and feel relieved and
liberated--at least until it comes  back for corrections. 
  
Take  care. Hope you're having a wonderful summer. It sounds as though you
are. 
  
Warmly, 
  
Steve 

Steven Gould Axelrod 
Professor of English 
Director of  Graduate Studies 
University of California 
Riverside, CA 92521 
951 780  5653 (home phone) 
-----Original Message----- 
From: Jeffrey Gray  [mailto:grayjefh at shu.edu] 
Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 3:20  PM 
To: Steven Axelrod 
Subject: RE:  entries 



Steve--   
Thanks for steering someone my way. (It was  Mark Bundy; I wonder if it
isn't he whom you'd steered my way a year or so  ago; then, when we asked
for a paragraph describing what he'd write, he  disappeared.  Well, don't
say anything--maybe it was someone else.)   Anyway, many thanks. 

Here's  an odd question.  In a long sequence I've been writing I have the
line  "You took a sunset personally."   Do you recall Lowell or anyone else
saying that?   I had the idea maybe I'd lifted it from someone.   

Hope all's going fine--- 
Jeff   

Jeffrey H. Gray, Associate  Professor 
Department of English 
Seton Hall University 
South Orange,  NJ 07079 



"Steven Axelrod"  <steven.axelrod at ucr.edu>   

06/22/2005 08:55 PM 
	


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"'Jeffrey Gray'"  <grayjefh at shu.edu>   

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Hi  Jeff, 
  
I   rooted around for a Lesbian/Gay entry author, and someone expressed
interest  (can't quite recall who now) but I guess he never wrote to you.
Let me do some  more work. It would be a shame not to have at least a  small
entry on this  topic. 
    
Best, 
  
Steve 

Steven Gould Axelrod 
Professor of English 
Director of  Graduate  Studies 
University of California 
Riverside, CA 92521 
951 780  5653 (home  phone) 
-----Original Message----- 
From: Jeffrey Gray  [mailto:grayjefh at shu.edu]   
Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 8:39   AM 
To: Steven Axelrod 
Subject:  entries 



Hi  Steve--   

I hope all's  going fine and you're having  a productive summer.   I find it
hard  to work at any kind of pace; things  get done but slowly. 

I thought I'd  ask you once again (or  did I ask you recently?) whether you
know anyone able  and willing to  write an entry on Gay and Lesbian Poetics
(or Gay and Lesbian  Poetry, or  two separate entries---all are options).
We'll  probably  just have to chuck the idea for lack of interest.  I've
begun to   think that if a topic isn't interesting to any one of hundreds of
possible  contributors, then it may not be of interest to readers  either.


Or is it an  identity thing--i.e. when we  turn to the topos of identity, we
turn to  prose?       

We  have to "freeze content" as I guess  publishers say, after god kinows
how  many deadlines.    So we have  to give up a number of pretty  important
poet and a couple of topic entries.   (As re. the former,  not "important"
in the big canonical sense but  Blumenthal, Scarborough,  Brossard, et al,
should have been included.)     

Marjorie Perloff, who'll be MLA president  in 2006,  suggested we have a
celebration/reception for the encyclopedia at  MLA.   Now I wonder whether
she meant this December or not.    I'll ask her.   Greenwood is trying to
get the thing  out by  this year, incredible though that seems.   

Thanks in advance for any ideas on Gay Poetry /  Lesbian Poetry.   

best  wishes, 
Jeff 
    

Jeffrey  H. Gray, Associate Professor 
Department of   English 
Seton Hall University 
South Orange, NJ  07079 


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