Marjorie Perloff
Marjorie Perloff (1931–2024) was one of the world’s leading critics and scholars of avant-garde poetry. Following her Frank O’Hara: Poet Among Painters, she applied close reading, interdisciplinarity, and multilingual talents to a series of books ranging from The Futurist Moment to Edge of Irony. She died at her home in Pacific Palisades on 24 March 2024.
Marjorie Perloff's work featured in PN Review comprises one report, nine articles, and two reviews, over a period of 45 years. Also available are two reviews of Marjorie Perloff's work.
Further Reading
Report in PN Review 48 (1986) Discrimination and American Literature
Article in PN Review 19 (1981) One of the Two Poetries
Article in PN Review 112 (1996) Robert Duncan's Letters to Denise Levertov
Article in PN Review 115 (1997) What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Poetry
Article in PN Review 155 (2004) The Vienna Paradox (extracts)
Article in PN Review 163 (2005) Anna Akhmatova in Translation
Article in PN Review 203 (2012) Towards a Conceptual Lyric
Article in PN Review 236 (2017) Reading Tom Raworth’s Ace
Article in PN Review 249 (2019) Microreading / Microwriting
Article in PN Review 285 (2025) My 1950s
Article in PN Review 112 (1996) Robert Duncan's Letters to Denise Levertov
Article in PN Review 115 (1997) What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Poetry
Article in PN Review 155 (2004) The Vienna Paradox (extracts)
Article in PN Review 163 (2005) Anna Akhmatova in Translation
Article in PN Review 203 (2012) Towards a Conceptual Lyric
Article in PN Review 236 (2017) Reading Tom Raworth’s Ace
Article in PN Review 249 (2019) Microreading / Microwriting
Article in PN Review 285 (2025) My 1950s
Reviewed by Robert Sheppard in PN Review 32 (1983) on Marjorie Perloff's 'Poetics of Indeterminacy'
Reviewed by Mark Dow in PN Review 205 (2012) on Marjorie Perloff
Reviewed by Mark Dow in PN Review 205 (2012) on Marjorie Perloff