Procedural Elegies/Western CIV Cont'd (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781931824392)

Joan Retallack's book, Procedural Elegies/West Civ Cont' d/ was an ArtForum Best Book of 2010. As a poet, critic, biographer, and multi-disciplinary scholar, she was the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor of Humanities at Bard College where she taught courses in poetics, poethics, and experimental traditions in the arts. Retallack directed the Language & Thinking Program at Bard for ten years and participated in the development of an Arabic Language & Thinking Program at Al-Quds University, the Palestinian university in Jerusalem. Her work has been translated into six languages. In 2009, she delivered the Judith E. Wilson Poetics Lecture at Cambridge University, which hosted a two-day conference on her work. Her interests in poetics include polylingualism, ecopoetics, and the poethics of alterity.