The volume provides readers with close reading—a dimension that has been notably neglected in most analyses of Iʿtiṣāmī’s poetry. The significance of Noorian’s approach extends beyond such meticulous close readings; she equally emphasizes the contextualization of Iʿtiṣāmī’s career within the broader framework of modern Iran. In this manner, the v…[Read more]

El artículo analiza una curiosa obra titulada «Libro de los pensamientos variables», mezcla de prosa y verso y compuesta entre 1488 y 1492, que se conserva en un solo manuscrito de la Biblioteca Nacional de España (MSS/6442). Tras resumirse su contenido y sus principales inf luencias literarias, se intenta identificar a su posible autor como el…[Read more]

The moon, not the finger, pointing is a sort of memoir – a collection of 67 lyric poems that trace the course of a life from the Texas Panhandle through Chicago to China and back, with the window open “because everybody knows / by now there is a poem out there.” In Chicago, “a street musician / plays Vivaldi on violin not two blocks from / a kid s…[Read more]

ویتمن ایرانی: فراتر از پذیرش ادبی ــ که به پذیرش والت ویتمن، شاعر نامدار آمریکایی، در یک دورۀ تقریباً صد ساله در ایران معاصر می‌پردازد ــ دارای نُه فصل، مقدمه، مؤخره و ضمیمه است. کتابِ حاضر تحقیقی بینارشته‌ای است: از سویی ادبیات تطبیقی (پذیرش ادبی، تأثیرپژوهی و تصویرشناسی) و نقد ادبی (تاریخ‌گرایی نو)، و از سوی دیگر مطالعات ترجمه (ترجمه و ای…[Read more]

The concept of lite coding is proposed as a place-holder for a growing body of practices within ubimus. We present the Erlang Music Generation Library 1.0 (emugel), a prototype for casual musicking that features a simplified notation to represent pitch, durations, dynamics and timbre with an emphasis on handling event patterns. We describe the…[Read more]

Mesmerism provided Edgar Allan Poe with a framework in which to reimagine logical and poetic rigor.

This piece explores connections between science fiction and lyric poetry.

In “Generation Hwabyung Telepathy” and “A Resume of Traumas,” the Korean American lyric speaker struggles with the pain of generational trauma that she has inherited from her father and from the grandfather she has never met.

In this prose poem, the Korean American lyric speaker meets the ghosts of her ancestors, explores generational trauma, and lets her ancestors speak to and through her.