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The Game Changed Lawrence Joseph The Game Changed essays and other prose THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN PRESS Ann Arbor Copyright ©2011 by Lawrence Joseph All rights reserved This book may not be reproduced, in whole or in part, including illustrations, in any form (beyond that copying permitted by Sections 107 and 108 of the U.S. Copyright Law and except by reviewers for the public press), without written permission from the publisher. Published in the United States of America by The University of Michigan Press Manufactured in the United States of America (cid:1) Printed on acid-free paper 2014 2013 2012 2011 4 3 2 1 A CIP catalog record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Joseph, Lawrence, 1948– The game changed : essays and other prose / Lawrence Joseph. p. cm. — (Poets on poetry series) ISBN 978-0-472-07161-6 (cloth : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-472- 05161-8 (pbk. : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-472-02774-3 (ebk.) 1. Joseph, Lawrence, 1948– Knowledge—Poetry. 2. Poetry. I. Title. PS3560.O775G36 2011 814'.54—dc22 2011014828 For Laurence Goldstein Acknowledgments “The Poet and the Lawyer: The Example of Wallace Stevens” was presented as a talk at the Eleventh Annual Wallace Stevens Birthday Bash, sponsored by The Hartford Friends of Wallace Stevens, at the Hartford Public Library, on October 7, 2006. “Michael Schmidt’s Lives of the Poets” originally appeared in The Nation, December 13, 1999, under the title “New Poetics (Sans Aristotle).” “A Note on ‘That’s All’” originally appeared, in slightly different form, in Ecstatic Occasions, Expedient Forms, edited by David Lehman (Macmillan, 1987). “Tony Harrison and Michael Hofmann” originally appeared, in slightly different form, in The Village Voice, March 20, 1990, under the title “Men of Irony.” “Frederick Seidel”originally appeared, in slightly different form, in The Nation,September 24, 1990, under the title “War of the Worlds.” Parts of “Enzensberger’s Kiosk”appeared, in different form, in Jacket #4,and in the “Preface”to Kiosk(The Sheep Meadow Press, 1998). “‘Our Lives Are Here’: Notes from a Journal, Detroit, 1975” origi- nally appeared, in slightly different form, in Michigan Quarterly Re- view(Spring 1986). “John Ashbery and Adrienne Rich”originally appeared, in slightly different form, in The Nation, April 20, 1992, under the title “The Real Thing.” “James Schuyler’s The Morning of the Poem” originally appeared, in slightly different form, in Poetry East(Fall 1992). “Word Made Flesh”originally appeared, in different form, in Com- munities: Contemporary Writers Reveal the Bible in Their Lives,edited by David Rosenberg (Archer Books, 1996), under the title “Jeremiah and Corinthians.” The first two parts of “A Few Reflections on Poetry and Language” originally appeared, in different form, in “Theories of Poetry, The- ories of Law,” Vanderbilt Law Review (Volume 46, 1993). “Hayden Carruth”originally appeared, in slightly different form, in The Kenyon Review (Winter 1994), under the title “Journeys to Love.” “Marilyn Hacker”originally appeared, in slightly different form, in Voice Literary Supplement, February 1995, under the title “A Formal Life: Marilyn Hacker’s Deep Structure.” “Aspects of Weldon Kees” originally appeared in Verse (Summer 1997), under the title “Aspects of Kees.” “Smokey Robinson’s High Tenor Voice” originally appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review(Fall 2000). “Joyce Carol Oates’s Blonde”originally appeared in The Nation,May 8, 2000, under the title “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” “Marie Ponsot” originally appeared, in slightly different form, in Commonweal,December 18, 2009, under the title “Between Silence & Sound.” “Conversation with Charles Bernstein”is transcribed, in slightly dif- ferent form, fromA New Close Listening and Reading and Conversation with Lawrence Joseph, PENNSOUND, July 7, 2008, http://www.writing .upenn.edu/pennsound/daily/200807.php. “Working Rules for Lawyerland” originally appeared in Columbia Law Review (Volume 101, 2001). “Being in the Language of Poetry, Being in the Language of Law” was presented as the Colin Ruagh Thomas O’Fallon Memorial Lec- ture, University of Oregon Humanities Center, April 16, 2009, and published, in different form, in Oregon Law Review (Volume 88, 2010). The selections in the “Poets on Poets and Poetry”sections are also included in “Notions of Poetry and Narration,” Cincinnati Law Re- view(Volume 77, 2009). My thanks to Andrew Simons, William Manz, and, especially, Mari- lyn Hacker and Peter Oresick. viii Contents Poets on Poets and Poetry The Poet and the Lawyer: The Example of Wallace Stevens 3 Michael Schmidt’s Lives of the Poets 10 A Note on “That’s All” 18 Tony Harrison and Michael Hofmann 21 Frederick Seidel 26 Enzensberger’s Kiosk 33 “Our Lives Are Here”: Notes from a Journal, Detroit, 1975 42 John Ashbery and Adrienne Rich 50 Poets on Poets and Poetry James Schuyler’s The Morning of the Poem 59 Word Made Flesh 68 A Few Reflections on Poetry and Language 78 Hayden Carruth 89 Marilyn Hacker 95 Aspects of Weldon Kees 99 Smokey Robinson’s High Tenor Voice 104 Joyce Carol Oates’s Blonde 106
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